How r/pinkfloyd received The Endless River and its lack of Roger Waters

The 2014 release of The Endless River landed in r/pinkfloyd like a slow tide – respectful but divided. Most threads agreed the album worked best as a tribute to Richard Wright, pulling from unused Division Bell sessions and letting his keyboards float front and center. But the absence of Roger Waters became the subreddit’s quiet battleground.

Pro-Gilmour fans saw it as pure Pink Floyd: atmospheric, instrumental, and deliberately non-political. They argued Waters had nothing to do with this music, and calling it “incomplete” missed the point. Waters loyalists pushed back, saying the album felt like a hollow echo without his lyrical bite or conceptual structure – just pretty sounds with no anchor.

Top-voted comments usually landed on a middle ground: a lovely farewell for Wright, but a forgettable addition to the band’s catalog. The real heat came when anyone tried to call it a “true” Pink Floyd album without Waters. The subreddit spent days re-litigating the same old feud, just dressed in new ambient textures.