The Division Bell
| Pink Floyd
The Division Bell
The Division Bell is the fourteenth studio album by the English progressive 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. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
(1994) The band seems to be padding at every opportunity. Consequently, The Division Bell will satisfy only the most ravenous Pink Floyd fan.
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A.V. Club Music
Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell is a lesson in the unfortunate power of nostalgia.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
The Division Bell wasn't just a return to Pink Floyd's earlier, more free-flowing psych-rock songcraft. Released on March 28, 1994, the project also marked Floyd's last truly collaborative moment, as remaining members David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright rekindled something that appeared lost with Roger Waters' departure.
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Consequence of Sound
It’s a divisive album, but the Bell definitely rings on and on for me. And that’s that. For me, at least.
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All Music
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.
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Classic Rock Review
This may be Gilmour’s most impressive musical performance, between the melodic vocals and various guitar textures.
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Uncut
Gilmour’s Floyd didn’t only recapture something of the group’s classic sound. He also found what Waters had historically supplied to the group: something to say.
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Sputnik Music
In summary, the Division Bell may not be perfect (seriously, "Keep Talking" could just not exist) and it may be missing a few of the vital elements that made the Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals so flawless. But it makes up for all of that with the sheer power of its bittersweet reminiscences.
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Pop Matters
The Division Bell is what it is: not the best Pink Floyd album and, yet, a sonic masterpiece.
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My Rock Mix Tapes
Fans’ views are conflicting but all I can say is that David Gilmour is one truly inspiring musician and we can’t but admire his band loyalty and his beautiful brainchild – The Division Bell.
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Entertainment Weekly
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.
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Hi Res Audio
Pink Floyd has always been known for exquisite sound. Nothing is truer. ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ set new standards in audiophile circles. And ‘The Division Bell’ represents nothing less than the same high level of sonic quality.
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Countdown Kid
Even though the album was not quite a return to classic form, it did contain moments of the old hypnotic grandeur and perhaps provided a little bit of closure for fans of this one-of-a-kind band.
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Louder Sound
This is pristine Pink Floyd for the 90s – which may or may not be what you want from them.
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Anhedonic Headphones
The Division Bell is easy forgettable. It’s an uninteresting and limp album, and sticking with it (for all 66 minutes) was an absolute chore.
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Brain Damage
As our review states, it really is sonically a stand-out release, and we can imagine that many vinyl fiends will be searching this one out.
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The Pink Floyd Fandom
The CD ends with a blazing guitar solo, pushing the theme out of the album and into our lives, giving us something to think about as we live our lives: KEEP TALKING.
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Matt Hellwing
The Division Bell 20th in 5.1 should bring together many ears divided over this contentious latter-era chapter of the Floydian legacy. With it, our long-held high hopes have duly been fulfilled.
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Mark's Record Reviews
Old Floyd took you places you'd never been; new Floyd makes you wish you were in another room
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Don Ignacio's Music Reviews
While The Division Bell should hardly be placed alongside the band's great masterpieces, it stands on its own feet pretty well. I give it a very strong
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Adrian's Album Reviews
Dave Gilmour and The Pink Floyd organization march on with another world-wide bestseller that only loosely can be considered the work of the same group of individuals that made the likes of 'Dark Side' or 'Wish You Were Here'
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Only Solitaire
Yeah, not even the terrifying album cover can truly redeem the album.
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