Sam Yahel, of Josh Redman's Elastic band, had a good instrumental crack at Dark Side, and now Nguyên Lê sets the controls for the heart of darkness. It helps that he has fellow travellers in Gibbs, Husband and the Bigband who have long enjoyed their own fruitful alliance and have no little feel for a big noise and big feelings. Gibbs has three arrangements, including orgiastic takes on ‘Brain Damage’ (featuring an apocalyptic vocal from Sun Nah) and ‘Eclipse’. Like Yahel, the interpretations are loose (no vocals on ‘Great Gig’, for example), but loving: Husband has a ball out-clattering Mason's original drums on ‘Time’, punching off against fat spikes of brass. Lê's own songs, like the meditative ‘Magic Spells’, or the Nyman-esque ‘Hear this Whispering’, counterpoint the Floyd originals. As for his guitar work, it ranges from the quietly riotous, on a driven ‘Great Gig In The Sky’ (with Attic evoking Pastorious' ghost), to the orientally inflected, but you can be confident he never sounds like Gilmour. Brave, if maybe broken-backed at times, this is a full-on production that pulls no punches, and, rather fittingly has arrived just as Floyd's purported last project surfaces.