- progressive rock, rock, art rock, prog rock
- 51 min
- 10 tracks
- Columbia
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is the thirteenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released in the UK on 7 September 1987 by EMI and the following day in the US by Columbia Records. It was recorded primarily on the converted houseboat Astoria, belonging to the guitarist, David Gilmour.
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Grave, character-led, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- The Daily Telegraph1/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- MusicHound Rock2/5
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 ★
- The Village VoiceC
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Tracks
- 1Signs of Life4:24
- 2Learning to Fly4:53
- 3The Dogs of War6:09
- 4One Slip5:07
- 5On the Turning Away5:42
- 6Yet Another Movie / Round and Around7:28
- 7A New Machine, Part 11:46
- 8Terminal Frost6:17
- 9A New Machine, Part 20:39
- 10Sorrow8:47
10 tracks, 51 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Pink Floyd
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 1987
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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