★★★★★
Sound: The guitar work is exactly what you might want/expect from David Gilmour. Though a bit less thought-provoking then his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour does toss in quite a few solos with his signature tone and phrasing. He has a wonderful sense of time and depth. This work is similar to work found on The Division Bell, a bit lighter than early Pink Floyd...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
There's a moment just a little over two minutes into David Gilmour's "On an Island" that illustrates exactly why so many of us spent our college years listening to Pink Floyd. It happens on the moody instrumental "Castellorizon," as Gilmour strikes a note that sounds like it shouldn't come from a guitar. It sounds so much like a voice, possessing so much emotion and personality, that it serves as a calling card. David Gilmour is back in the house...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Claiming â??On An Islandâ?? as his best work yet, it's clear that Gilmour is sprinkling LSD on his cornflakes again. How he can claim that this grandiose pile of crap is better than anything that Floyd came up with is beyond insanity...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-23
★★★★★
This live album is excitedly billed as 'the first solo live album from Pink Floyd's singer / guitarist'. A sketchy claim, this, given the availability of his outstanding Royal Albert Hall residency in 2006, the closest we can expect to get to a fully fledged Pink Floyd reunion.But splitting hairs aside, this is a unique event in itself, a concert given in a Polish shipyard to mark the anniversary of the August '80 treaty...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Two decades since his last solo outing and 12 years since Pink Floyd's final studio album The Division Bell, David Gilmour sounds like he's having a wonderful time. On An Island features an assortment of Gilmour's friends and admirers and could be the soundtrack to a blissed-out tropical holiday.Along the way to kicking back and chilling, Gilmour displays an undimmed love of week-long emotive guitar solos in amongst orchestral and blues-tinged moments...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Not only the final date on Gilmour's 2006 tour, in support of fine solo album On an Island, but now a de facto tribute to recently departed Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright. Comes in generous 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-CD packages featuring concert footage of the show in Poland's most celebrated shipyard, a documentary and further live recordings.
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-02
★★★★★
Sound: This is one amazing bunch of CD's. Whether you bought the 2-Disk set or the 5-Disk Special Edition (The one I got), this pack of songs is sure to make any Pink Floyd or David Gilmour fan pleasantly surprised. As I really never listened to any of his solo stuff until buying this album a week or so ago, I really didn't know what to expect. But, a concert with two out of four of the main Pink Floyd members, was very welcomed into my CD collection...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Sound: With almost 30 years having passed since David Gilmour joined Pink Floyd, hearing the an album like On An Island is a proof positive that the rock icon's talent hasn't ebbed in any way. While some artists have obvious wear and tear in their vocals, Gilmour sounds better than ever...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Relations within Pink Floyd hit a new low after 1977's Animals album, with a megalomaniacal Roger Waters ever more infuriatingly dismissive of his bandmates' contributions. Yet David Gilmour's first solo album contradicts Waters's complaint that the guitarist never wrote any songs...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-07-21
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