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Animals is Pink Floyd's tenth studio album, released in January 1977 and recorded at their own Britannia Row Studios. Like Meddle and Wish You Were Here before it, the album trades in extended, long-form compositions that resist conventional song structure in favour of sustained, immersive atmosphere. It occupies a particular place in the band's catalog: darker in texture than what came before, built on momentum rather than resolution.
About Animals
Animals is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 21 January 1977, by Harvest Records and Columbia Records. It was produced by the band at their new studio, Britannia Row Studios, in London throughout 1976. The album continued the long-form compositions of Pink Floyd's previous works, such as Meddle (1971) and Wish You Were Here (1975).
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Films like Animals
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
A troubled rock star descends into madness through physical and social isolation.
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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
Two men fund a Vietnam deserter's escape by selling LSD, then fend off rival gangs.
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Dog's Night Song
A priest counsels a Communist ex-rep, a dying woman, and an astronomer in a punk band.
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Rock & Rule
A malevolent rock star kidnaps a singer to summon a demon — her band must stop him.
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Psych-Out
A deaf runaway searches Haight-Ashbury for her brother and falls in with a psychedelic band.
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Leto
Smuggled LPs and underground rock in early-80s Leningrad, just before Perestroika.
Books to read after Animals
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Echoes
A thorough chronicle of the band's collective and individual arcs from before formation onward.
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Saucerful of secrets
A biography tracing the full arc of a British progressive and psychedelic rock band.
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Animal liberation
Argues that opposing human suffering must logically extend to opposing animal suffering too.
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung
Sharp critical essays on rock performers including Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and the Clash.
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Film music
An overview of film music, opening with analysis of a well-known sequence from Reservoir Dogs.
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Rainforest animals
Brief poems introduce the animals of tropical rainforests, illustrated throughout.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after Animals by Pink Floyd?
The film Pink Floyd: The Wall is the most direct companion — it translates the band's themes of isolation and societal pressure into a visceral cinematic experience. For something more underground, Leto captures the raw energy of a counterculture rock scene with equal emotional intensity.
Are there any books about Pink Floyd or Animals worth reading?
Echoes is a comprehensive chronicle of the band's full career and performances, while Saucerful of Secrets digs into the biography of the British progressive rock group — both go deep on the world that produced Animals.
Why do people love Animals by Pink Floyd?
The album's long-form, unbroken compositions — drawing on the tradition of works like Meddle and Wish You Were Here — reward patient listening, and its biting social allegory gives it a weight that still resonates decades after its 1977 release.