Warner Music [Sony Music outside Europe] today announced
the upcoming release of Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ on Deluxe Gatefold, CD,
LP, Blu-ray and SACD. The individual versions will be available on September 16, 2022 with the Deluxe version
available from October 7, 2022.
This is the first time the album will have been available on 5.1 Surround
Sound.
'Animals' is
the tenth studio album by Pink Floyd,
originally released in January 1977. It was recorded at the band's
Britannia Row Studios in London throughout 1976 and early 1977, and was
produced by the band themselves. The successful album peaked at number 2
in the UK and number 3 in the US, and is considered as one of the band's
best works. The album was recorded by band members David Gilmour, Nick
Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright.
'Animals 2018
Remix' will
be released on CD, LP (with gatefold artwork), Blu-ray, SACD and Deluxe
Gatefold formats. The Deluxe Gatefold version includes LP, CD, audio
Blu-ray, audio DVD and a 32-page book. The Blu-ray and DVD audio include
the 2018 remix in Stereo, 5.1 Surround (both by James Guthrie) and the
original 1977 Stereo mix. The 32-page booklet features rarely seen behind
the scenes photographs of the album sleeve shoot along with live images
and memorabilia. The album artwork has been reimagined for this release.
'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.
The album's iconic cover shows an inflatable pig (now known as Algie)
floating between two chimneys of the Battersea Power Station,
conceived by Roger Waters, and designed by long-time
collaborator Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis Studios. For this new
release, the artwork has been re-designed for the modern era by Storm’s
Hipgnosis partner Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell. Taking new shots of the building as
it appeared during the recent conversion work, Po experimented with new
angles and produce some striking new takes on the classic original. Po
elaborates: “With the original 1977 album
cover being such an iconic piece of stand-alone art, I had the chance to
update it, which was a rather daunting task, but Hipgnosis took the
opportunity to re photograph the image to reflect a changing world, and
by using modern digital colouring techniques I kept Pink Floyd’s rather bleak
message of moral decay using the Orwellian themes of animals, the pig
‘Algie’, faithful to the message of the album.”
Pink Floyd’s 'Animals 2018 Remix’ is available to pre-order here.
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