Pink Floyd announce release of long-delayed Animals remaster

Pink Floyd’s
Animals
arrived in January 1977, after 1975’due south
Wish You Were Hither
and before 1979’due south
The Wall.  Coming between those ii epochal works,
Animals
was initially dismissed by some critics.  Consisting of but five tracks (2 short bookends and 3 lengthy compositions), no singles were released and
Animals
became somewhat of a subconscious gem – despite having peaked at No. 2 in the United Kingdom and No. three in the Us.  This fall, fans volition accept a risk to rediscover
Animals
as its long-awaited five.ane surround sound mix is released as part of a campaign revisiting the album on CD, LP, Blu-ray Audio, and SACD.

Pink Floyd’south tenth album,
Animals
was produced by the band – Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Bricklayer, and Richard Wright – with its songs penned primarily past Waters.  (Gilmour contributed to the music of “Dogs” besides as joining Waters for its pb vocals.)  With inspiration from George Orwell’s novel
Animal Farm, the LP was powerfully political, critiquing capitalism and using animal imagery to signal out man’s inhumanity to man.  The response was as visceral as the music; Rolling Stone called the band “biting and morose” and their message “pointless and tedious” while NME pronounced Animals “one of the most extreme, relentless, harrowing, and downright iconoclastic hunks of music to take been fabricated available this side of the sun.”  Robert Christgau felt it was “a piece of well-constructed political program music.”  Nick Mason and Richard Wright subsequently recalled the unpleasantness in the studio while crafting the album.  Mason felt a “workmanlike mood” might have stirred upwards unconsciously as a upshot of the punk movement’southward ongoing assail on progressive bands such equally Pink Floyd’s perceived pomposity and grandiosity.  Wright described
Animals
as “the start of the whole ego thing in the band.”

The album’due south famous original embrace, featuring the inflatable pig Algie floating betwixt 2 chimneys of the Battersea Ability Station, was designed by the late Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis.  For the upcoming reissues, the artwork has been redesigned past Thorgerson’s Hipgnosis partner Aubrey “Po” Powell, with new photographs taken during the building’s recent conversion work.

James Guthrie’s stereo and 5.i surround remixes of
Animals
have been promised for a number of years; in 2020, Roger Waters claimed that Gilmour and Bricklayer had rejected the new mixes.  A yr after, Waters publicly called out Gilmour for allegedly rejecting a set of liner notes written by Marker Blake for the release; he published the notes on his website.  At present, the 5.i
Animals
can finally be heard with the consent of the living band members. Animals 2018 Remix will be released on stereo CD, gatefold LP, Blu-ray, hybrid SACD, and Deluxe Gatefold formats; the latter includes the LP, CD, Blu-ray, an sound DVD, and a 32-page volume containing photos and memorabilia.  The Blu-ray and DVD include the 2018 stereo and surround mixes in loftier resolution likewise as the 1977 original stereo mix in its 2011 remaster.

Animals: 2018 Remix
is due on September 16 in all individual formats; the Deluxe Gatefold gear up follows on Oct vii.  You lot’ll notice pre-society links below.

Pinkish Floyd,

Animals: 2018 Remix

(Harvest LP SHVL 815, 1977 – reissued Pink Floyd/Warner (U.Yard.)/Sony (U.Due south.), 2022)

1CD: Amazon U.South. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.Chiliad. / Amazon Canada
Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Link TBD / Amazon Canada
SACD: Acoustic Sounds
CD/LP/BD/DVD Gatefold Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.Southward. / Amazon U.G. / Amazon Canada

1. Pigs on the Wing one
2. Dogs
3. Pigs (Iii Unlike Ones)
4. Sheep
5. Pigs on the Wing 2