Animals is Pink Floyd's tenth studio album, released in January 1977. A landmark concept album, it delivers a blistering critique of late-70s British society through a marked shift in the band's sound, drawing from progressive rock toward something rawer and more confrontational. Recorded at the band's own Britannia Row Studios in London, the sessions captured a band at a creative peak, even as early tensions began to surface between Roger Waters and the rest of the group. Waters conceived the album's iconic cover, a giant inflatable pig drifting between the chimneys of Battersea Power Station, with longtime collaborator Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis bringing the image to life. The album peaked at #2 on the UK Albums Chart and #3 on the US Billboard 200.
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