ANIMALS

In 1945 George Orwell published his allegory on communism, the acclaimed Animal Farm. 32 years later Pink Floyd took the idea of portraying humans as animals to criticise society and politics for this concept album, proving that Orwell's ideas are timeless and effective, by simply changing communism for capitalism, observing greedy businessmen, fake people, mindless sheep and others. Fun fact when I first listened to animals I never even knew it was an album based on George Orwell's "Animal Farm"

The album consists of five songs, two of them 1 1/2 minutes and the other three at least 10 minutes long. The album opener and closer Pigs on the Wing doesn't quite fit into the concept, it's a rather positive song that's played on an acoustic guitar. The main focus lies on the three tracks in between which have long and indulging instrumental parts and a rather bleak and pessimistic focus. Just like "The Wall" this album is basically Roger Waters' album and he proves that he can write brilliant tracks on his own which would lead some to say that "Roger Waters is Pink Floyd" .David Gilmour's only lead vocals are on Dogs, but there they are some of his finest ever and his guitar work is flawless on the entire record.

While this album is consistently great and has no low points like some of Floyd's filler tracks off of other albums, there's nothing that strikes me as absolutely outstanding, some of the songs are a bit lengthy and the concept of the album doesn't always work with most listeners. Nevertheless, these are 42 minutes of terrific music and Pink Floyd's Magnum Opus without a doubt. 5.0

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