藩篱之钟

概念

《藩籬之鐘》對待溝通的主題和說話的方法可以解決許多問題。 In the Studio廣播的主持人Redbeard建議專輯提供「通過令人顫抖的優美的時刻，產生真正超越一切的可能性」。 歌曲比如〈Poles Apart〉和〈Lost for Words〉之類的歌曲已被作為表明平克·弗洛伊德和1985年離隊的前樂隊成員羅傑·沃特斯之間的隔閡；但是，大衛·吉爾摩否認了這一點，並表示：「人們可以用他們個人的方式創作和敘述一首歌，但在這一點上使羅傑回歸已經有點晚了。」 專輯名稱引用了英國國會宣布表決的藩籬鍾。 鼓手尼克·馬森說道：「這確實有一些意義，它是關於人們做出選擇的是與非。」
東方集團垮台後幾年，〈A Great Day for Freedom〉並列將柏林圍牆的倒塌以及隨之的戰爭、種族清洗以及南斯拉夫戰爭普遍的精神歡快聯繫在一起。最初錄製為英國電信的電視廣告的史蒂芬·霍金聲音樣本被用在歌曲〈Keep Talking〉之中；大衛·吉爾摩被霍金參與的廣告所感動，他聯繫了廣告公司，允許他們使用在錄製的唱片之中。 馬森以為：「從廣告中獲取創意是政治上不正確的，但這似乎是一個非常相關的部分。」 在專輯的最後，大衛·吉爾摩的繼子查理聽到掛在平克·弗洛伊德經理Steve O'Rourke上的電話聽筒，他已經懇求允許他出現在平克·弗洛伊德專輯中。

器樂譜寫

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.

包裝和標題

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-公尺（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

除了下方備註的，所有歌曲主唱均由David Gilmour擔任。

再版

自1994年發行以來, 「藩籬之鐘」已經再版兩次。 第一次發行是《Why Pink Floyd...?》的一部分，這張專輯被Andy Jackson重新發布並以獨立的CD發行，作為Discovery Box套裝的一部分，該套裝首次將所有14張錄音室專輯收錄在一起。 第二次重新發行於2014年6月30日，發行專輯發行為「20周年豪華版」套裝 和20周年雙LP唱片發行。 套裝包含了2011年重新灌錄的專輯；一個由Andy Jackson混錄的5.1環繞立體聲版 ；2張180克的LP黑膠唱片；一個紅色7寸〈Take It Back〉單曲；一個清晰的七寸〈High Hopes/Keep Talking〉單曲；一個藍色的、雷射蝕刻的12寸 "High Hopes" 單曲；書籍及各式藝術卡片。2014年的重新發行專輯上首次發行了黑膠唱片，1994年發行的黑膠版本僅保留了歌曲的編輯版本它到一個單一的LP。