| A New Machine | |
| Artist: | Pink Floyd |
| Album: | A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Published: | Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd |
| Released: | 7 September 1987 (UK) 8 September 1987 (US) |
| Recorded: | November 1986August 1987 |
| Genre: | Progressive rock |
| Length: | 2:24 together 1:46 Part 1 0:38 Part 2 |
| Label: | EMI (UK) Columbia (US) |
"A New Machine", parts 1 and 2 are songs from Pink Floyd's 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason.[1] [2]
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.
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.
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