Performance

Animals

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Released in 1977, Pink Floyd’s *Animals* is a rock album built from extended, suite-like tracks and a bleak social allegory, staging its characters as beasts in a rigged hierarchy. Its critique of power and compliance still reads cleanly in a city that knows institutions and ambition up close. At the Cutting Room in New York, the record is performed in full by Pink Talking Fish, threaded with material associated with Talking Heads and Phish, with the room turning costume into participation. One fair observation: the album’s severity can feel unyielding, which is also the point.