A New Machine

"A New Machine"
"A New Machine"
Song by Pink Floyd
from the album A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Published	Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
Released	7 September 1987 (UK) ; 8 September 1987 (US)
Recorded	November 1986 – August 1987
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	2:24 together; 1:46 Part 1; 0:38 Part 2
Label	EMI (UK); Columbia (US)
Songwriter(s)	David Gilmour
Producer(s)	Bob Ezrin; David Gilmour;
Audio
	"A New Machine (Part 1)" on YouTube
Audio
	"A New Machine (Part 2)" on YouTube

"A New Machine", parts 1 and 2 are songs from Pink Floyd's 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason.^[1]^[2]

Lyrics and music

They serve as bookends to the instrumental track "Terminal Frost", and feature David Gilmour's voice, electrically distorted, through a vocoder and a rising synth note. The narrator seems to express weariness with a lifetime spent in one body, waiting for the moment of death, but seeks consolation in the fact that this "waiting" will eventually end.

"A New Machine has a sound I've never heard anyone do. The noise gates, the Vocoders, opened up something new which to me seemed like a wonderful sound effect that no one had done before; it's innovation of a sort."
— David Gilmour, Musician magazine (Aug. 1992)^[3]

The two songs were the first Pink Floyd songs to be credited solely to David Gilmour since "Childhood's End", from their 1972 album Obscured by Clouds.

Personnel

Pink Floyd^[4]

David Gilmour – vocals, vocoder, synthesiser, programming

Additional musicians

Patrick Leonard – synthesiser

References

^ Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1177. ISBN 1-84195-551-5.
^ Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-4301-X.
^ Matt Resnicoff (August 1992). "Careful With That Axe David Gilmour Interview". Musician. Archived from the original on 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
^ Guesdon, Jean-Michel (2017). Pink Floyd All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track (1st ed.). Edinburgh: Black Dog & Leventhal. p. 513. ISBN 978-0316439244.

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[1] Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1177. ISBN 1-84195-551-5.

[mabbett-2] Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-4301-X.

[3] Matt Resnicoff (August 1992). "Careful With That Axe David Gilmour Interview". Musician. Archived from the original on 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2010-08-16.

[4] Guesdon, Jean-Michel (2017). Pink Floyd All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track (1st ed.). Edinburgh: Black Dog & Leventhal. p. 513. ISBN 978-0316439244.

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