More is one of Pink Floyd’s two film soundtracks, and of the two probably the weaker. I would go so far as to say it’s broadly the only Floyd album I feel like I don’t get. I won’t go as far as saying I hate it, but I don’t think there’s a lot to vibe with. The movie itself is a mediocre independent drama about hippies succumbing to heroin addiction on Ibiza that was released to poor reviews and would be more or less forgotten by history except that its soundtrack constituted Pink Floyd’s third studio album and first without any involvement from co-founder Syd Barrett.

If you listen to it you’ll find it representative of the early part of the band’s wilderness years, largely unfocused latter-day psychedelia. The biggest lowlight is the penultimate track, “A Spanish Piece”, an acoustic number interrupted by Roger Waters threatening you in a bad, lisping Castilian accent. As for highlights, “The Nile Song” is a broadly acceptable hard-rocker and “Cymbaline” was the only song on this album that remained part of the Floyd’s touring setlist for any significant length of time. The latter, indeed, was being pulled out in concerts as late as 1972. After that, of course, their concerts became much more focused on their then-recent mega-albums until they stopped happening entirely for years. After Rog’s ouster from the band, they never returned to More, of course, though Nick Mason has occasionally played pieces from it live.

My verdict: You can skip this one unless you really like early David Gilmour.