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== Reception == {{Album ratings | subtitle = Retrospective reviews | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=animals-mw0000191390 |label=Album review |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |access-date=30 April 2013}}</ref> | rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]'' | rev2Score = B+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: P|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=P&bk=70|via=robertchristgau.com|access-date=10 March 2019|archive-date=6 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406133025/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=P&bk=70|url-status=live}}</ref> | rev3 = ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite news|last=McCormick|first=Neil|date=20 May 2014|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/8790376/Pink-Floyds-14-studio-albums-rated.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/8790376/Pink-Floyds-14-studio-albums-rated.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Pink Floyd's 14 studio albums rated|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|access-date=18 July 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> | rev4 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]'' | rev4Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{sfn|Larkin|2011|pp=2065β66}} | rev5 = ''[[The Great Rock Discography]]'' | rev5Score = 8/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strong |first1=Martin C. |title=The Great Rock Discography |date=2004 |publisher=Canongate |location=New York |page=1176 |ol=18807297M |edition=7th}}</ref> | rev6 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]'' | rev6score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Graff|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Durchholz|editor2-first=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | publisher = Visible Ink Press | location = Farmington Hills, MI | year = 1999 | page = [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/872 872] | isbn = 1-57859-061-2 | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/872 }} </ref> | rev7 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' | rev7Score = 10/10<ref>{{Citation|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6307-animals/|title=Album review|publisher=pitchfork.com|access-date=4 July 2011|archive-date=10 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710061304/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6307-animals/|url-status=live}}</ref> | rev8 = ''[[PopMatters]]'' | rev8Score = 9/10<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Garratt|first=John|date=22 November 2011|url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/149844-pink-floyd-animals/|title=Pink Floyd: Animals|magazine=[[PopMatters]]|access-date=18 July 2014|archive-date=11 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611075817/http://www.popmatters.com/review/149844-pink-floyd-animals/|url-status=live}}</ref> | rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' | rev9Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="RSguide">{{cite magazine|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/pink-floyd/albumguide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217230328/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/pink-floyd/albumguide|title=Pink Floyd: Album Guide|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]], [[Fireside Books]]|date=2 November 2004|archive-date=17 February 2011|access-date=27 December 2014}}</ref> | rev10 = ''[[Tom Hull β on the Web]]'' | rev10Score = Aβ<ref>{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=Pink+Floyd|title=Grade List: Pink Floyd|website=Tom Hull β on the Web|access-date=19 July 2020|archive-date=19 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719163930/http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=Pink+Floyd|url-status=live}}</ref> }} ''[[NME]]'' called ''Animals'' "one of the most extreme, relentless, harrowing and downright iconoclastic hunks of music to have been made available this side of the sun",<ref name="Blakep247">{{Harvnb|Blake|2008|p=247}}</ref> and ''Melody Maker''{{'s}} [[Karl Dallas]] described it as an "uncomfortable taste of reality in a medium that has become in recent years, increasingly soporific".<ref name="Blakep247" /> ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'s}} Frank Rose was unimpressed, writing: "The 1977 Floyd has turned bitter and morose. They complain about the duplicity of human behavior (and then title their songs after animals β get it?). They sound like they've just discovered this β their message has become pointless and tedious."<ref name="Rollingstonereview">{{Citation | last = Rose | first = Frank | title = Pink Floyd ''Animals'' | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pinkfloyd/albums/album/89221/review/5943065/animals | date = 24 March 1977 | access-date = 13 October 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080618145836/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pinkfloyd/albums/album/89221/review/5943065/animals | archive-date = 18 June 2008}}</ref> [[Robert Christgau]] of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' gave the album a "B+" rating and found the negative reaction overly cynical, reasoning that the album functions simply as "a piece of well-constructed political [[program music]] ... lyrical, ugly, and rousing, all in the right places".<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=25 April 1977|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv4-77.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|location=New York|access-date=18 July 2014|archive-date=25 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325170832/http://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv4-77.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Critic Mike Cormack said "Shorn of the lush textures of ''Dark Side'' or ''Wish You Were Here'', Pink Floyd here are forbidding, stripped-down and muscular. ''Animals'' is to all intents and purposes their punk album; it has, with all deference to the Sex Pistols, a huge amount of bollocks. But it is largely undigestible by radio or compilation albums, and so it remains the lost great album of the Pink Floyd canon."{{sfn|Cormack|2024}}
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