It’ll be released by Pink Floyd on September 16th.
Pink Floyd’s tenth studio album Animals – originally released in January 1977 – is about to be the latest from the veteran band to receive a reissue.
The ‘2018 Remix’ of the record will be made available in a variety of formats on 5.1 Surround Sound for the first time, complete with a re-design of the iconic artwork (pic) from Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, partner at Hipgnosis Studios of the original designer Storm Thorgerson.
“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,” Powell explains.
“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.”