Obscured by Clouds

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Template:Album infobox Obscured by Clouds is a rock album by Pink Floyd based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée. The LP was released in the UK on June 3, 1972 on Harvest/EMI and then in the US on June 15 on Harvest/Capitol. The album reached #6 on the UK album charts and #46 on the US album charts (where it was certfied Gold by the RIAA in March, 1994).

In 1986, the album was released on CD. A digitally remastered CD was released in March 1996 in the UK and August 1996 in the US.

"Free Four" was the first Pink Floyd song to get significant airplay in the US, and the first to deal directly with the death of Eric Fletcher Waters, Roger Waters' father. The title track, one of the album's several instrumentals, became something of a Floyd concert staple for a time, often as the band's opening number. The song "Childhood's End" is said to have been inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke novel of the same name, and was the last Pink Floyd song with lyrics by David Gilmour until A Momentary Lapse of Reason was released fifteen years later.

Obscured by Clouds was the first Pink Floyd album to feature the VCS 3 synthesiser.

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