After over eight months of continuous recording at their own Britannia Row studios in 1976, ‘Animals’ was originally released in 1977 and became one of the band’s most popular albums. The album is amongst Pink Floyd’s most recognisable covers featuring the iconic pig flying above Battersea Power Station. Available on Vinyl for the First Time in More Than 20 Years!

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• Pink Floyd 2016 Remasters
• Remastered from the Original Master Tapes
• 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
• Mastered by James Guthrie and Joel Plante
• Vinyl cut by Bernie Grundman 
• Pressed in Europe
• Reproduction of Original Artwork
• Gatefold Cover

On 3 June 2016, Pink Floyd Records will begin the reintroduction of the Pink Floyd catalogue on vinyl for the first time in over two decades. Pink Floyd Records will reproduce the vinyl catalogue throughout the year with release dates being announced at regular intervals.

Special care has been taken to replicate the original packaging. The first batch of releases, mastered by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman will be pressed on 180gram vinyl for optimum sound quality.

Pink Floyd featuring Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason first broke onto the music scene in 1967, with the hit single ‘Arnold Layne’. Despite the departure of Syd Barrett, the group, which now included David Gilmour, recorded some of the most innovative and ground breaking records of the time, culminating in 1973 with one of the biggest selling albums of all time, ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’. There followed numerous global number 1 albums, including, ‘The Wall’, ‘Animals’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘The Final Cut’ and 2014’s finale, ‘The Endless River’.

Pink Floyd Records releases will be manufactured and distributed by Warner Music for the UK and Europe and by Sony Music for North America and the rest of the world.

Pink Floyd's 1977 opus, Animals, is back on vinyl LP for the first time in more than 20 years. Remastered from the original master tapes for reference-quality sound. Inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm, Animals provides an analysis of the social-political society of 1970's Britain and also served as a response to the era's punk-rock movement. Anchored by Roger Waters' pointed songwriting and David Gilmour's stunning guitar work, the fan-favorite Animals finds the band in transition yet again offering constructs that would come to full fruition on ambitious successor The Wall. The album cover, featuring 'Algie' the pig floating above London's Battersea Power Station, is amongst Pink Floyd's most recognizable.

"Loosely based on George Orwell's book Animal Farm, Roger Waters' third consecutive concept album replaced Orwell's critique of Stalinism with a scathing indictment of capitalist oppression during Margaret Thatcher's term as England's prime minister. The band derided by punks like the Sex Pistols as epitomizing "dinosaur" rock performed thick, rich protest music here, with some of David Gilmour's most glorious blues playing amid bleak panoramas of processed sound. Consisting of three long tracks bookended by the gently acoustic "Pigs on a Wing," Animals was the first album Pink Floyd recorded in its own studio. R.G." - Rolling Stone

Track Listing:

01. Pigs On The Wing (Part One)
02. Dogs
03. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
04. Sheep
05. Pigs On The Wing (Part Two)

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