Remixed and remastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman
Includes 28-page booklet and a gatefold jacket
“Listening to James Guthrie’s 2018 stereo remix of Pink Floyd’s Animals on vinyl is generally a lovely, detailed listening experience. This new mix – or, in the collective/official parlance, Remix – is an improvement on the original editions in almost every way. … There is much more detail and presence apparent surrounding the instruments, with increased clarity and separation. The vocals are also much more upfront. An incredible sense of staging is more apparent here, something that previously wasn’t as immediate.” — Mark Smotroff, AnalogPlanet.com, Sept. 30, 2022
The time is now for a coveted 180-gram LP reissue of the Pink Floyd 1977 classic Animals. The reissue presented here was remixed for the first time, and remastered, by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman from the original analog tapes. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl, it will be presented in a poly-lined inner sleeve inside a reproduction of the original LP sleeve.
Animals is a concept album, focusing on the social-political conditions of mid-1970s Britain, and was a change from the style of the band’s earlier work. The album was developed from a collection of unrelated songs into a concept which describes the apparent social and moral decay of society, likening the human condition to that of animals. Taking inspiration from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the album depicts the different classes of people as animals with pigs being at the top of the social chain, dropping down to the sheep as the mindless herd following what they are told, with dogs as the business bosses getting fat on the money and power they hold over the other. Although it’s been a long time since 1977, the narrative of the album still resonates today as our social and economic situation mirrors that of the time.
Animals reached No. 2 in the U.K., and No. 3 in the U.S.. Thanks to the album and the band’s back catalog, noted The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums, “Pink Floyd bested Abba for most weeks on chart (in 1977), 108 to 106.”
NME called Animals “one of the most extreme, relentless, harrowing and downright iconoclastic hunks of music to have been made available this side of the sun,” and Melody Maker’s Karl Dallas described it as “(an) uncomfortable taste of reality in a medium that has become in recent years, increasingly soporific.”
