藩篱之钟

概念

《藩篱之钟》对待沟通的主题和说话的方法可以解决许多问题。 In the Studio广播的主持人Redbeard建议专辑提供“通过令人颤抖的优美的时刻，产生真正超越一切的可能性”。 歌曲比如〈Poles Apart〉和〈Lost for Words〉之类的歌曲已被作为表明平克·弗洛伊德和1985年离队的前乐队成员罗杰·沃特斯之间的隔阂；但是，大卫·吉尔摩否认了这一点，并表示：“人们可以用他们个人的方式创作和叙述一首歌，但在这一点上使罗杰回归已经有点晚了。” 专辑名称引用了英国国会宣布表决的藩篱钟。 鼓手尼克·马森说道：“这确实有一些意义，它是关于人们做出选择的是与非。”
东方集团垮台后几年，〈A Great Day for Freedom〉并列将柏林墙的倒塌以及随之的战争、种族清洗以及南斯拉夫战争普遍的精神欢快联系在一起。最初录制为英国电信的电视广告的斯蒂芬·霍金声音样本被用在歌曲〈Keep Talking〉之中；大卫·吉尔摩被霍金参与的广告所感动，他联系了广告公司，允许他们使用在录制的唱片之中。 马森以为：“从广告中获取创意是政治上不正确的，但这似乎是一个非常相关的部分。” 在专辑的最后，大卫·吉尔摩的继子查理听到挂在平克·弗洛伊德经理Steve O'Rourke上的电话听筒，他已经恳求允许他出现在平克·弗洛伊德专辑中。

器乐谱写

With the aid of Gilmour's guitar technician, Phil Taylor, Carin located some of Pink Floyd's older keyboards from the warehouse in which they had been stored, including a Farfisa organ. Some of the sounds sampled from these instruments were used on the tracks "Take It Back", and "Marooned". Carin was joined on keyboards by Ezrin. Durga McBroom supplied backing vocals alongside Sam Brown, Carol Kenyan, Jackie Sheridan, and Rebecca Leigh-White.
Gilmour used several styles on the album. "What Do You Want from Me" is influenced by Chicago blues, and "Poles Apart" contains folksy overtones. Gilmour's improvised guitar solos on "Marooned" used a DigiTech Whammy pedal to pitch-shift the guitar notes over a full octave. On "Take It Back", he used an EBow, an electronic device which simulates the sound of a bow on the strings, on a Gibson J-200 guitar through a Zoom effects unit.

包装和标题

To avoid competing against other album releases (as had happened with A Momentary Lapse) Pink Floyd set a deadline of April 1994, at which point they would begin a new tour. By January of that year however, the band still had not decided on a title for the album. The list of names being considered included Pow Wow and Down to Earth. At a dinner one night, writer Douglas Adams, spurred on by the promise of a  payment to his favourite charity, the Environmental Investigation Agency, suggested "the division bell" (used in the lyrics for "High Hopes"), and the name stuck.
Longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson provided the album artwork. He erected two large metal heads, each the height of a double-decker bus, in a field near Ely. The sculptures were positioned close together, and photographed in profile, to give the illusion that not only were they either facing or talking to each other, they also presented the viewer with a third face. Thorgerson mentioned the "third absent face" was a reference to Syd Barrett. The sculptures were devised by Keith Breeden, and constructed by John Robertson. Ely Cathedral is visible on the horizon. The pictures were shot in cold February for optimal lighting conditions.  Since 2001, the sculptures are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. An alternate version of the cover photo, featuring two 7.5-米（25-英尺） stone sculptures by Aden Hynes, was featured on the compact cassette release and the tour brochure.
The album was released in the UK and US on CD, vinyl, cassette and  mini-disc, each with its own format and label-specific design. The artwork inside the CD liner notes revolves around a similar theme, with the image of the two heads formed by various other objects, such as newspapers ("A Great Day for Freedom"), coloured glass ("Poles Apart"), and boxing gloves ("Lost for Words"). Pages two and three portray a picture from the Chilean Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The CD tray itself had the name of Pink Floyd printed in Braille on the left front side.

巡演

Two days after the album's release, the band's Division Bell Tour began at Joe Robbie Stadium, in suburban Miami. The set list began with 1967's "Astronomy Domine", before moving to tracks from 1987's A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and The Division Bell. Songs from Wish You Were Here and The Dark Side of the Moon featured, as well as The Wall. Backing musicians included Sam Brown, Jon Carin, Claudia Fontaine, Durga McBroom, Dick Parry, Guy Pratt, Tim Renwick, and Gary Wallis. The tour continued in the US through April, May and mid-June, before moving to Canada, and then returning to the US in July. As the tour reached Europe in late July, Waters was invited to join the band, but he declined, and later expressed his annoyance that some Floyd songs were being performed again in large venues. On the first night of the UK leg of the tour on 12 October, a 1,200 capacity stand collapsed, but with no serious injuries; the performance was rescheduled.
During the tour an anonymous person named Publius posted a message on an internet newsgroup, inviting fans to solve a riddle supposedly concealed in the new album. The message was verified during a show in East Rutherford, where white lights in front of the stage spelled out "Enigma Publius". During a televised concert at Earls Court in October 1994, the word "enigma" was projected in large letters on to the backdrop of the stage. Mason later acknowledged that the Publius Enigma did exist, but it had been instigated by the record company rather than the band. As of 2014, the puzzle remains unsolved.
The tour ended at Earls Court on 29 October 1994, and was the group's final concert performance until Live 8. Estimates placed the total number of tickets sold at over 5.3 million, and gross income at about $100 million. A live album of the tour, named Pulse, and a concert video, also named Pulse, (which was shot on 20 October 1994) were released in June 1995.

曲目列表

除了下方备注的，所有歌曲主唱均由David Gilmour担任。

再版

自1994年发行以来, “藩篱之钟”已经再版两次。 第一次发行是《Why Pink Floyd...?》的一部分，这张专辑被Andy Jackson重新发布并以独立的CD发行，作为Discovery Box套装的一部分，该套装首次将所有14张录音室专辑收录在一起。 第二次重新发行于2014年6月30日，发行专辑发行为“20周年豪华版”套装 和20周年双LP唱片发行。 套装包含了2011年重新灌录的专辑；一个由Andy Jackson混录的5.1环绕立体声版；2张180克的LP黑胶唱片；一个红色7寸〈Take It Back〉单曲；一个清晰的七寸〈High Hopes/Keep Talking〉单曲；一个蓝色的、激光蚀刻的12寸 "High Hopes" 单曲；书籍及各式艺术卡片。2014年的重新发行专辑上首次发行了黑胶唱片，1994年发行的黑胶版本仅保留了歌曲的编辑版本它到一个单一的LP。