The farm!

The best Pink Floyd? Some prefer the term Barrett will cite the original sin, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, other closer to the trippy 70s examine and relaxed period for The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, other finally no concept albums lovers probably will choose the Wall. Few cite Animals, yet what album!
Perhaps because it is less easily comprehensible than its competitors to the throne, Animals, none more progressive predecessor or successor, which earned him the votes of prog generous community, has always had the look of a parent poor, of the one you love but still too often forgotten.
Yet from its landmark pouch (Battersea power station flown by a balloon pig), it is a demonstration of a group at the peak of his creative powers. Compositionally dominated by Roger Waters (it will become a habit until he left the group in 1985) which yields a co-credit to his colleague Gilmour (Dogs), but this is a first here is a dark and strange album, free adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm, a precursor too, without lengths and heaviness, a nihilistic The Wall, where each participant musicians finds its place in weaving the canvas disturbing to us proposed.
Certainly Richard Wright fans regret that these keyboards are here mainly atmospheres creators, texturing machines (in this case, that is exactly what was needed) Pink Floyd's is not for so radically altered if only by the ubiquity of the shimmering guitar of David Gilmour. Certainly, the lack of any real song whatsoever disconcert those who had made Money, Time, Welcome to the Machine or Wish You Were Here their favorite moments from the London catalog, but the great epics (Dogs, Pigs, Sheep) with two miniature opening and closing the album (both Pigs on the Wing) there has plenty to esbaudir before such mastery, so much talent, so much imagination and so full coherence overall it is easy to get carried away in the dark trip Waters.
For all these reasons, but also for its impeccable implementation fomented by the group itself, the 10th installment of Pink Floyd deserves his place in the pantheon of progressive and conceptual works that count, more than the runner-up balance training works, wrongly, still revered today.

1. Pigs on the Wing 1 1:25
2. Dogs 5:03 p.m.
3. Pigs (Three Different Ones) 11:25
4. Sheep 10:25
5. Pigs on the Wing 2 1:23

David Gilmour - lead guitar, vocals on "Dogs", bass guitar on "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and "Sheep", talkbox on "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" acoustic guitar on "Dogs", additional backing vocals
Nick Mason - drums, percussion, tape effects
Roger Waters - lead vocals, acoustic guitar on "Pigs on the Wing", rhythm guitar on "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and "Sheep", tape effects, vocoder, bass guitar on "Dogs"
Richard Wright - Hammond organ, electric piano, Minimoog, ARP string synthesizer, piano, Clavinet, backing vocals on "Dogs"