Animals, Remastered By Pink Floyd in 2018, is Now Available

This September, Pink Floyd will release a remastered edition of their tenth studio album, 1977's 'Animals,' four years after it was originally scheduled to do so.

The album, titled the ‘2018 Remix’ edition of ‘Animals,’ will be released on 16th September by Sony. The physical release will come in 12-inch vinyl, Blu-ray and both standard CD and SACD formats. On 7th October, a deluxe edition will go on sale. It will come with the vinyl, CD and Blu-ray discs as well as an exclusive DVD and 32-page book.

The selling point for this album is a completely new mix of ‘Animals,’ which renowned sound engineer James Guthrie transformed into 5.1 Stereo. This will be combined with the original 1977 mix for the Blu-ray and DVD versions. It also features brand-new artwork by Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, who collaborated with Storm Thorgerson, the creator of the album's original cover, as a part of the London-based group Hipgnosis.

According to a statement posted on social media by Pink Floyd, during recent conversion work at the Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the River Thames, Powell took fresh pictures of the building that appears on the album's cover, adding to the storyline for the concept album.

Check out the cover art of '2018 Remix' edition of 'Animals' and the band's entire statement about its release below: 

The '2018 Remix' edition of 'Animals,' as suggested by its name, was completed four years ago, shortly after the album's 40th anniversary. A conflict between guitarist David Gilmour and ex-bassist Roger Waters, which allegedly started over the album's freshly revised liner notes, led to the cancellation of those plans.

Four of the album's five tracks were solely written by Waters, while the song 'Dogs' was a collaboration between him and Gilmour (and featured both of their lead vocals). 

Waters claimed in a blog post from last June that Gilmour would not have approved the new release without the removal of the journalist Mark Blake's liner notes from the album's packaging. Waters stated that although Gilmour does not question the reality of the history depicted in Mark's notes, he wants the information to remain a secret.

In the meantime, last week, Pink Floyd announced a physical release for their Ukraine benefit track 'Hey Hey Rise Up,' which at the time of its April digital release was the group's first new music in 25 years. On 15th July, a seven-inch vinyl and CD single will be available in the UK, Europe and a few more markets. It will be made available on 3rd August in Japan; on 21st October in North America, Canada, Australia and Mexico.

The song ‘A Great Day For Freedom’ from Pink Floyd's 1994 album ‘The Division Bell’ will be altered on the B-side. David Gilmour based his revisions on the song's original tapes.

--Silviya.Y