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Roger Waters: Is This The Life We Really Want?

Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, 21 June 2017

UNTIL RECENTLY, it seemed that Roger Waters would be content to play out his career taking his incredible Pink Floydian spectacles around the world's enormodomes. But let's be frank, you wonder if Waters will ever be content. And, as all his work's ferociously dystopian themes seem more relevant than ever, his first "pop" album in 25 years, Is This The Life We Really Want?, is truly timely.

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