Animals 2018 Remix - The iconic 1977 Pink Floyd album has been remixed
for the first time by James Guthrie. Animals is a concept album,
focusing on the social-political conditions of mid-1970s Britain, and
was a change from the style of the band’s earlier work. The album was
developed from a collection of unrelated songs into a concept which
describes the apparent social and moral decay of society, likening the
human condition to that of animals. Taking inspiration from George
Orwell’s Animal Farm, the album depicts the different classes of people
as animals with pigs being at the top of the social chain, dropping down
to the sheep as the mindless herd following what they are told, with
dogs as the business bosses getting fat on the money and power they hold
over the other. Although it’s been a long time since 1977, the
narrative of the album still resonates today as our social and economic
situation mirrors that of the time.