A New Machine

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| name = A New Machine

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| artist = Pink Floyd

| album = A Momentary Lapse of Reason

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| published = Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd

| released = 7 September 1987 (UK)
8 September 1987 (US)

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| recorded = November 1986{{snd}}August 1987

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| genre = Progressive rock

| length = 2:24 together
1:46 Part 1
0:38 Part 2

| label = EMI (UK)
Columbia (US)

| writer = David Gilmour

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| producer = {{hlist|Bob Ezrin|David Gilmour}}

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"A New Machine", parts 1 and 2 are songs from Pink Floyd's 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason.{{Cite book

| last = Strong

| first = Martin C.

| title = The Great Rock Discography

| publisher = Canongate Books

| location = Edinburgh

| isbn = 1-84195-551-5

| page = 1177

| date = 2004

| edition = 7th

}}{{Cite book

| last = Mabbett

| first = Andy

| title = The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd

| publisher = Omnibus Press

| location = London

| isbn = 0-7119-4301-X

| date = 1995

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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.

{{Quote|"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){{Cite web|url=http://www.pinkfloydfan.net/t1477-david-gilmour-careful-axe-musician.html|title=Careful With That Axe David Gilmour Interview|author=Matt Resnicoff|publisher=Musician|date=August 1992|accessdate=2010-08-16|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102140948/http://www.pinkfloydfan.net/t1477-david-gilmour-careful-axe-musician.html|archivedate=2011-01-02}}}}

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.