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PINK FLOYD Animals 1977 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS - A-2U/B-2U - NEAR MINT PINK FLOYD
Animals

UK HARVEST (SHVL 815) FIRST ISSUE (February 1977)
PRESSED WITH THE HARVEST CUSTOM PICTURE LABELS
MATRIX: SHVL 815 A-2U / SHVL 815 B-2U
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL GARROD & LOFTHOUSE PRINTED, WIDE SPINE GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH FACTORY SEALED AND FOLDED UNDER LEFT SIDE EDGE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER SLEEVE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS

Of all of the classic-era Pink Floyd albums, Animals is the strangest and darkest, a record that's hard to initially embrace yet winds up yielding as many rewards as its equally nihilistic successor, The Wall.
It isn't that Roger Waters dismisses the human race as either pigs, dogs, or sheep, it's that he's constructed an album whose music is as bleak and bitter as that world view.
Arriving after the warm-spirited (albeit melancholy) Wish You Were Here, the shift in tone comes as a bit of a surprise, and there are even less proper songs here than on either Wish or Dark Side.
Animals is all extended pieces, yet it never drifts -- it slowly, ominously works its way toward its destination.
For an album that so clearly is Waters', David Gilmour's guitar dominates thoroughly, with Richard Wright's keyboards rarely rising above a mood-setting background (such as on the intro to "Sheep"). This gives the music, on occasion, immediacy and actually heightens the dark mood by giving it muscle. It also makes Animals as accessible as it possibly could be, since it surges with bold blues-rock guitar lines and hypnotic space rock textures. Through it all, though, the utter blackness of Waters' spirit holds true, and since there are no vocal hooks or melodies, everything rests on the mood, the near-nihilistic lyrics, and Gilmour's guitar

Side 1:
Pigs On The Wing (Part One) (1.24)
Dogs (17.06)
Side 2:
Pigs (Three Different Ones) (11.26)
Sheep (10.19)
Pigs On The Wing (Part Two) (1.27)

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - one spindle trace on one side, two or three on the other
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like-new - unmarked in normal light with nothing but harmless wispy hairlines from the inner visible under bright light
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT/EXCELLENT+
Outstanding audio quality - crystal clear, rich, warm and strong and my play-check at volume found little to fault - just the occasional touch of surface on the quietest bits of Side Two - nothing really. The framing intro and outro acoustic tracks 'Pigs On The Wing (Part One)' and 'Pigs On The Wing (Part Two)' are both clean
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Strong, solid thick card gatefold. Some rub on the spine and light ring to the back but overall a really fine example
INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Clean and unmarked - some creasing around the edges and record pressure bottom centre but not split

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