A New Machine

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

"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

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