I know what you mean. But the truth is that if they had included these outtakes in that overpriced Division Bell box set, I sure as hell wouldn't have bought it. If it is released as a separate item titled The Endless River, there's much more chance of my wallet being able to afford the damn thing!
But yea, why market/tweet it as a new album when it is only outtakes from a previous album? Maybe we're jumping the gun and should wait for more details. lol.
But even releasing it on the box set, fans like us who don't want the whole thing can still buy it separately. Generally exciting material like that will be released separately as a single disc, after the box set has come out or sometimes even simultaneously. Like CSNY have a new 4-disc live album coming out tomorrow, but they also have a single disc "Selections" version for casual fans. And in the digital age you can just pick whichever tracks you want anyway, that's what I've done with the huge Nirvana remaster box sets that have been coming out. I hate to say it but the only logical reason to release this as a new Pink Floyd album is $$$$$.
But you're right, new details will emerge and maybe it
won't be marketed as a new Pink Floyd album, or it may even be released as part of a non-box-set version of the Division Bell.
LG, you're definitely right about Dave & Rog. My issue really isn't that they should have Rog on the album, but that without Roger they shouldn't call it a Pink Floyd album. No reason it couldn't have been a companion disc to Division Bell.
I know they themselves would never see it this way, but the way I see it... Roger had his time controlling the band, and Dave had his. They can leave it at that and be even. To do a new Roger-less Floyd project is adding salt to the wounds and I thought they had matured beyond that.
I am not sure if this new "album" is all outtakes or what... Apparently it contains material from "The Big Spliff", atmospheric stuff Mason, Wright and Gilmour have been working on since the end of the Division Bell tour. To me, that sounds more like fresh material...
More conclusive information is bound to come out... But if I read the articles correctly, the material was worked on
during The Division Bell sessions and the material known as The Big Spliff was actually being performed live before the album even came out. But they've gone into the studio this year and have been adding to the tracks, so it's possible there could be brand new compositions in there. Or that some of the material was from after the Division Bell. I think The Big Spliff is probably just a name given by bootleggers to the material, I doubt Floyd would name anything that, they've never been that transparent about drugs.
