The soundtrack to the fairly straightforward 2019 concert film
Us + Them captures a June 2018 Amsterdam show from
Roger Waters' supporting tour for his 2017 album
Is This the Life We Really Want? Waters effectively structures this accompanying live album as a series of mini-suites of familiar
Pink Floyd material. First up is the first side of
Dark Side of the Moon, with "On the Run" swapped for "One of These Days," then after an interlude of "Welcome to the Machine," there's a series of songs from
Is This the Life We Really Want?, before another nod to
Wish You Were Here, a pair of cuts from
The Wall, followed by two lengthy selections from
Animals, before concluding with nearly all of the second side of
Dark Side. It's effectively an oldies show, delivered with precision and panache, albeit with no deviation from the original recorded versions. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine