Roger Waters Shares New Single ‘Déjà Vu’

On June 2, Columbia Records will release a new Roger Waters solo album entitled Is This The Life We Really Want?. The founding Pink Floyd bassist has shared another single from the new record, the ballad “Déjà Vu.”

Waters enlisted Nigel Godrich to produce Is This The Life We Really Want?, which marks the former’s first solo album since 1992’s Amused To Death. The 12-song new LP features Godrich contributing arrangements, sound collages, keyboards and guitar. The album also includes Jonathan Wilson on guitar and keyboards, Gus Seyffert on bass, guitar and keyboards, Joey Waronker on drums, Roger Manning and Lee Pardini on keyboards and Lucius vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig.

Previously described as, “unflinching commentary on the modern world and uncertain times,” that serves, “as a natural successor to classic Pink Floyd albums such as Animals and The Wall,” the new record also includes the lead single “Smell The Roses.” Stream “Déjà Vu” as well as “Smell The Roses” below:

Is This The Life We Really Want? Tracklist

1. When We Were Young
2. Déjà Vu
3. The Last Refugee
4. Picture That
5. Broken Bones
6. Is This the Life We Really Want?
7. Bird in a Gale
8. The Most Beautiful Girl
9. Smell The Roses
10. Wait for Her
11. Oceans Apart
12. Part of Me Died