Pink Floyd - Animals (2018 Remix Vinyl)

2018 Remix on 180 Gram Black Vinyl

James Guthrie's 2018 remix is the first time Animals has been remixed, and this LP carries it in stereo on one 180-gram black disc. The gatefold sleeve holds a 28-page booklet. Guthrie made the remix with assistant engineer Joel Plante, and the vinyl mastering is credited to Guthrie, Plante and Bernie Grundman. The surround mix appears on the Blu-ray and deluxe editions, not here.

Aubrey "Po" Powell, Storm Thorgerson's partner in Hipgnosis, redesigned the artwork around new photographs of Battersea Power Station taken during the building's conversion, with the inflatable pig, Algie, again in the sky between the chimneys. Powell has said he kept "Pink Floyd's rather bleak message of moral decay using the Orwellian themes of animals."

The remix dates from 2018 and was released on September 16, 2022. Roger Waters has attributed the wait to a disagreement with David Gilmour over a set of liner notes written by Mark Blake.

The label's notes describe the 1977 original as a concept album about the social and political conditions of mid-1970s Britain, drawn from Orwell's Animal Farm, with pigs at the top of the social order, dogs as the bosses beneath them and sheep as the herd. The video above is the 2018 remix of "Pigs (Three Different Ones)," the opening track of side two.

Tracklist

Side One

1. Pigs on the Wing 1
2. Dogs

Side Two

3. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
4. Sheep
5. Pigs on the Wing 2

Complete the Collection

Fifteen Pink Floyd titles at Evergreen Vinyl, this one included: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured By Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, A Collection Of Great Dance Songs, The Division Bell, The Best of Pink Floyd: A Foot in the Door, The Dark Side of the Moon: Live at Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974, 8-Tracks.