1. Public Service Broadcasting – The Other Side
2. Hawkwind – Lost in Science
3. Gong – Through Restless Seas I Come
4. Six Organs of Admittance – Adoration Song
5. Dungen – Jakten Genom Skogen
6. Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology
7. Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation – Sister Green Eyes
8. Mick Karn – Ashamed to Be a Part of Them
9. Ulver – 1969
10. Foxygen – Rise Up
11. The Phoenix Foundation – Slient Orb
12. The Comet Is Coming – Final Eclipse
13. Julie’s Haircut – Salting Traces
14. Richard Barbieri – Solar Sea
15. Orchestra of Spheres – Cluster
It’s a very violent album. Violence tempered with sadness…
“So said Roger Waters, reflecting on Pink Floyd’s Animals as it hit the racks in early ’77. Four decades on and in the current social climate, the album has taken on even greater meaning, as Waters confirms in this month’s cover story. As well as its unbridled lyrical vitriol, Animals is also an album which saw Floyd continue to develop their textured and conceptual approach to music itself. Of course, it is a progressive piece of work, but not in the pejorative manner so often and wrongfully associated with ‘prog’ as a genre. Such is Animals‘ musical resonance that it continues to inform modern music and inspire a raft of fellow musicians. Some of those artists are gathered on this compendium. From legendary acts such as Hawkwind, former Japan men Richard Barbieri and the late Mick Karn and Gong, through to established sonic adventurers Six Organs of Admittance, Ulver, Jane Weaver and Dungen, and on to emerging artists like the thrilling Julie’s Haircut, this is music that cuts across time, place and genre. And that in itself is a very Floydian concept indeed…” — Phil Alexander, Editor-In-Chief, MOJO Magazine London, England. February 2017