I keep slipping further and further back in time with these albums, but trust me, this one is truly worth it. My little brother went through a hug Pink Floyd phase and it was something I never really understood. I mean, I enjoyed “The Wall” and “Dark Side of the Moon” and the bits and pieces of other albums I would hear, but there was nothing to really grab me and keep me. Probably about a year and a half ago I was searching for new music to add to my ever-expanding collection and for some reason I was looking through Pink Floyd’s discography. I recognized most their albums, but had never remembered hearing anything about “Animals.” I decided this was the album I should look into, and boy am I glad I did!

Rating: 10.0
…It is the acute anthropomorphic fantasy, possessing a timeless quality that has thrust it into the category of “classic,” though it may remain forever in the shadow of its more commercially successful older brother, Dark Side Of The Moon. Consisting of three tracks each longer than ten minutes and two tracks under two minutes, Animals is not for the attention- span- deficient. However, within this impenetrable fortress of radio- unfriendly tracks, we hear Dave Gilmour’s guitars at their absolute best, get a full-on dose of Roger Waters’ powerful lyrical imagery, and are presented with the worst elements of our own humanity- packaged in the skins of “Sheep,” “Dogs” and “Pigs (Three Different Ones)”. For those weaned on The Wall and Dark Side, you’ll find Animals to be a whole new bag of feed. Where Floyd’s two most recognizable albums made their mark with operatic aggression and fear, Animals deals in dirt- under- the- fingernails reality, the common smallness that simultaneously binds and repels us all. “Dogs,” a 17-minute study in the commonest of all faults, lazily dispenses bite after venomous bite into the desires that drive us to seize the fast buck and screw anyone that gets in our way…

Quoted from Pitchfork