Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (20th Anniversary Edition, Remastered, Gatefold, 180 Gram) (2 LP)

This is a new double 180gm vinyl LP pressing of Pink Floyd's fourteenth studio album, The Division Bell in a gatefold jacket. Remastered from the original analogue tapes by James Guthrie, Joel Plante, and Bernie Grundman. Largely written by David Gilmour and Rick Wright, the album deals with themes of communication. Recording took place in several locations, including the band's Britannia Row Studios, and Gilmour's houseboat, Astoria. Pink Floyd stalwarts such as producer Bob Ezrin, engineer Andy Jackson and saxophonist Dick Parry were brought to produce. Gilmour's new wife, Polly Samson, co-wrote many of the album's lyrics, and Wright performed his first lead vocal on a Pink Floyd album since 1973's The Dark Side of the Moon.

The second post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd album is less forced and more of a group effort than A Momentary Lapse of Reason -- keyboard player Richard Wright is back to full bandmember status and has co-writing credits on five of the 11 songs, even getting lead vocals on "Wearing the Inside Out." Several of guitarist David Gilmour's lyrics (co-written by Polly Samson and Nick Laird-Clowes of the Dream Academy) might be directed at Waters, notably "Lost for Words" (the title is a perfect expression of where Waters' absence leaves the band) and "A Great Day for Freedom," with its references to "the wall" coming down, although the more specific subject is the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism. (All of this is in a great Pink Floyd tradition -- Waters himself spent a lot of time writing about the departure of Syd Barrett.) In any case, there is a vindictive, accusatory tone to songs such as "What Do You Want from Me" and "Poles Apart," and the overarching theme, from the album title to the graphics to the "I-you" pronouns in most of the lyrics, has to do with dichotomies and distinctions, with "I" always having the upper hand. Musically, Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Wright have largely turned the clock back to the pre-Dark Side of the Moon Floyd, with slow tempos, sustained keyboard chords, and guitar solos with a lot of echo. ~ William Ruhlmann

Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, programming); Rick Wright (vocals, keyboards); Nick Mason (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Tim Renwick (guitar); Dick Parry (tenor saxophone); Bob Ezrin (keyboards, percussion); Guy Pratt (bass); Gary Wallis (percussion, programming); Jon Carin (programming, keyboards); Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, Carol Kenyon, Jackie Sheridan, Rebecca Leigh-White (background vocals).
Engineers: Keith Grand, Andrew Jackson, Steve McLaughin.

• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: Rock
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• Record Company – Warner Music Group
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Pink Floyd (1987) Ltd.
• Copyright © – Pink Floyd (1987) Ltd.
• Recorded At – Astoria (2)
• Recorded At – Britannia Row Studios
• Recorded At – Metropolis Studios
• Recorded At – The Creek Recording Studios
• Engineered At – The Creek Recording Studios
• Remastered At – das boot recording
• Published By – Pink Floyd Music Publishers Ltd.
• Marketed By – Parlophone Records Ltd.
• Distributed By – Parlophone Records Ltd.
• Lacquer Cut At – The Mastering Lab
• Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BE49494
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