Pink Floyd are finally releasing their 2018 remaster of ‘Animals’
nme.comPink Floyd will release a remastered version of their 10th studio album, 1977’s ‘Animals’, this September.Dubbed the ‘2018 Remix’ edition of ‘Animals’, the album will land on September 16 via Sony.
The physical release will include both standard CD and SACD formats, 12-inch vinyl and Blu-Ray. A deluxe edition – slated to ship on October 7 – will include the vinyl, CD and Blu-Ray, plus an exclusive DVD and 32-page book.
Pre-orders for all of the versions can be found here.The selling point for this release is an entirely new mix of ‘Animals’, reworked into 5.1 Stereo by legendary sound engineer James Guthrie.
On the Blu-Ray and DVD releases, this will be paired with the original 1977 mix. It also sports new artwork by Aubrey “Po” Powell, who was a partner of the original cover’s artist, Storm Thorgerson, as a member of the London-based collective Hipgnosis.In a statement shared on social media, Pink Floyd explained that Powell took new photos of the building pictured on the ‘Animals’ cover – the Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the River Thames – during recent conversion work, adding to the narrative behind the album’s concept.Powell himself said: “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.”Have a look at the cover art for the ‘2018 Remix’ edition of ‘Animals’ – as well as the band’s full statement on its release – below:A.
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