Obscured by Clouds is the seventh studio album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder. Some copies of the album refer to the film by its English title, The Valley. The LP was released in the United Kingdom on 3 June 1972 on Harvest/EMI and then in the United States on 15 June 1972 on Harvest/Capitol. The album reached number one in France, number six on the UK Albums Chart and number 46 on the US albums chart (where it was certified Gold by the RIAA in March 1994).^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} The cover of Obscured by Clouds is an out-of-focus film still of a man in a tree.

At this point in their career, the band were not new to scoring movies. They had already scored the films The Committee in 1968 and More in 1969.

The band was already working on The Dark Side of the Moon during this period, but production was interrupted when the band travelled to France to score the movie. Nick Mason refers to the project: