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{{Infobox song
| name = A New Machine
| cover =
| alt =
| type =
| artist = [[Pink Floyd]]
| album = [[A Momentary Lapse of Reason]]
| EP =
| written =
| published = Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd
| released = 7 September 1987 (UK) <br>8 September 1987 (US)
| format =
| recorded = November 1986{{snd}}August 1987
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = [[Progressive rock]]
| length = 2:24 '''together'''<br>1:46 '''Part 1'''<br/>0:38 '''Part 2'''
| label = [[EMI Records|EMI]] (UK)<br/>[[Columbia Records|Columbia]] (US)
| writer = [[David Gilmour]]
| composer =
| lyricist =
| producer = {{hlist|[[Bob Ezrin]]|David Gilmour}}
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| misc = {{External music video|header=Audio|{{YouTube|dm9ipOgXNFw|"A New Machine (Part 1)"}}|type=song}}
{{External music video|header=Audio|{{YouTube|FCxisIIO3DI|"A New Machine (Part 2)"}}|type=song}}
}}
"'''A New Machine'''", parts 1 and 2 are songs from [[Pink Floyd]]'s 1987 album, ''[[A Momentary Lapse of Reason]]''.<ref>{{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
}}</ref><ref name="mabbett">{{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
}}</ref>

==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)<ref>{{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}}</ref>}}

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

==Personnel==
;Pink Floyd<ref>{{Cite book
| last = Guesdon
| first = Jean-Michel
| title = Pink Floyd All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track
| publisher = [[Black Dog & Leventhal]]
| location = Edinburgh
| isbn = 978-0316439244
| page = 513
| year = 2017
| edition = 1st
}}</ref>
*[[David Gilmour]] – vocals, [[vocoder]], [[synthesiser]], programming

Additional musicians

*[[Patrick Leonard]] – synthesiser

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{A Momentary Lapse of Reason}}
{{Pink Floyd}}

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[[Category:Pink Floyd songs]]
[[Category:1987 songs]]
[[Category:Rock ballads]]
[[Category:Songs about death]]
[[Category:Songs written by David Gilmour]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by David Gilmour]]

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