Roger Waters - IS THIS THE LIFE WE REALLY WANT? - CD

Personnel: Roger Waters (vocals, acoustic guitar); Holly Laessig, Jess Wolfe (vocals); Gus Seyffert, Jonathan Wilson, Nigel Godrich (guitar, keyboards); Roger Manning , Lee Pardini (keyboards); Joey Waronker (drums). Audio Mixer: Nigel Godrich. Recording information: Electric Lady Studios; Five Star Recording; United Recording; Wack Formula Studio. Photographer: Richard Rowley. Unknown Contributor Role: Megan Thomas. Arranger: Nigel Godrich. Roger Waters may not have made an album of new material between 1992 and 2017, but he was very active during that quarter-century. He toured regularly, wrote an opera, reunited Pink Floyd for the 2005 charity concert Live 8, and revived The Wall several times, turning the self-absorbed rock opera into a political piece. Is This the Life We Really Want?, his fourth song cycle, picks up on this thread, functioning as barbed protest music for the age of Brexit and Trump. Waters doesn't disguise his bile -- there's a lament for "The Last Refugee" and h