NEW Revisited Dave Gilmour’s Pink Floyd The Division Bell Edited and Re-Imagined by niKos Fusion

The Division Bell was the fourteenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 28 March 1994 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on 4 April by Columbia Records in the United States. The second Pink Floyd album recorded without founding member Roger Waters, The Division Bell was written mostly by guitarist and singer David Gilmour and keyboardist Richard Wright. Gilmour’s fiancée, the novelist Polly Samson, co-wrote many of the lyrics, which deal with themes of communication. It was the last Pink Floyd studio album to be composed of entirely new material, and the last recorded with Wright, who sadly died in 2008. The Division Bell received mixed reviews, but reached number one in more than 10 countries, including the UK and the US. In the US, it was certified double platinum in 1994 and triple platinum in 1999. The Division Bell received mixed reviews. Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly wrote that “avarice is the only conceivable explanation for this glib, vacuous cipher of an album, which is notable primarily for its stomach-turning merger of progressive-rock pomposity and New Age noodling“. Uncut reviewed the album for its 20th-anniversary reissue, and praised its production, writing that it sounded much “more like a classic Pink Floyd album“ than The Final Cut (1983) and that the connection between Wright and Gilmour was “the album’s musical heart“. Roger Waters, on the other hand, dismissed The Division Bell as “just rubbish ... nonsense from beginning to end.“ This ’Revisited’ version from niKos Fusion has reduced the original recording from over 66 minutes to just under 46 minutes. They have attempted to focus on the musical interplay between Dave Gilmour and Richard Wright by removing some of the dull monotonous vocal parts, including a couple of live versions, rearranged the songs into a more coherent pattern and introduced a Stephen Hawkins short monologue to the beginning; giving the album a concept (communication) feel like the earlier classic Pink Floyd Albums. Enjoy.