Animals.
| Pink Floyd
Animals.
Animals is the tenth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was first released on 23 January 1977 by Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and by Columbia Records in the United States. It is a concept album that provides a scathing critique of the social-political conditions of late 1970s Britain, and presents a marked change in musical style from their earlier work. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Animals is like George Orwell's Animal Farm run through a full- audio acid test- spectacular in every aspect and now in full color.
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Rolling Stone
(1977) Animals is Floyd’s attempt to deal with the realization that spacing out isn’t the answer either. There’s no exit; you get high, you come down again. That’s what Pink Floyd has done, with a thud.
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Consequence of Sound
The band's bleakest studio album feels eerily relevant in these grave times.
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All Music
Of all of the classic-era Pink Floyd albums, Animals is the strangest and darkest.
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Classic Rock Review
One of the more underrated classic albums, Pink Floyd‘s Animals is set up like an epic movie with three self-contained sub-chapters and sub-plots that somehow all tie together in the end.
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Alternative Nation
An Album As Relevant Today As It Was In 1977.
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Only Solitaire
The cool thing about art, anyway, is that we never have to agree with the artist - the only thing that matters is how effectively the artist gets his point across, and Animals passes that test with flying colors, an epic distillation of pure negativity in three parts.
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Pop Matters
Animals still makes me snap to attention this very day.
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Backseat Mafia
It is an album we should all be paying more attention to. It certainly acts as a potent reminder that it wasn’t just the Punks who were discontent and kicking off in the late 70s.
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Sputnik Music
In short, listen to this album. Listen to it. That's all, just listen to it now.
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The Oxford Student
Animals is their most vicious attack, which abandons the timeless, hazy fluidity of The Dark Side of The Moon and its predecessors for something altogether more direct.
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What Culture
Animals stays true to their established style while also sounding like their later and more professional styles.
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Puluche
The story in Animals is a good story within itself. However, it’s the music behind the lyrics that make it truly unique in that they replicate the feeling of the moment such as the “Sheep” becoming victorious in the final segment.
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Angry Metal Guy
Animals is one of the greatest progressive rock releases ever and should absolutely not fall by the wayside of the likes of Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and The Wall. It may not boast the immediacy of particular tracks within those others but its cunning and subtle hooks will embed deeply given half a chance.
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Vinyl Reviews
In 2017, the points conveyed in Animals feels more relevant than ever and sound less strident than they did 40 years ago.
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Mogg Blog
Absolutely stunning album and still so iconic to this day.
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Thirty Summers
The lyrics are cutting and brutal and take no prisoners throughout. In itself, a brilliant but scathing commentary on society of the time.
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The International Review of Music
Animals is pure monotony.
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Boppin's Blog
David Gilmour may give his finest Floyd solos on this album. Great vocals, keyboard, bass and drums make this all into a great album.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
'Animals' rocks? Well, in places.
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Amino Apps
Overall a near masterpiece and definitely a must listen for anyone, no matter the music taste.
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The Pink Floyd Fandom
This album is, without doubt, one of the greatest, true concept-albums ever composed.
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Get Into This
40 years later Animals still resonates partly because it’s a very well-written, well-played and arranged record, partly because its themes are universal and partly because the pigs and dogs are once more on the rise.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
This is the "pure" Pink Floyd not seen since Meddle, even if the style is drastically different, and it's a joy to behold. A must own.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
Animals is the last of the golden run of 1970s Pink Floyd for me – subsequent records were dominated by Waters and then Gilmour, and this is the last where there’s a semblance of the old camaraderie.
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Premier Guitar
The point here, however, is not perfection, but a fascinating glimpse of a band at work and on the move—at a time when superstars and open-minded audiences could share in the creative process.
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Mark's Record Reviews
Themes aside, the music on this record is really cool.
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Redbrick
Animals is a must-have album for any fan of Pink Floyd or the wider genre of progressive rock. Even within the legal disputes that came in the years after the album, the members of Pink Floyd still managed to demonstrate some of their signature approach to their art.
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