Music for Animals

Music for Animals is a studio album by German musician Nils Frahm. It was released on 23 September 2022 by Leiter Verlag.^[1]

Music for Animals
Studio album by Nils Frahm
Released	23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)
Recorded	2020–2022[1]
Length	186:35
Label	Leiter Verlag
Producer	Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm chronology
Old Friends New Friends (2021) Music for Animals (2022)

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Pitchfork	6.4/10[4]
PopMatters	7/10[5]
Uncut	7/10[6]

Music for Animals was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 72, based on 6 reviews.^[2]

Writing for Uncut, Piers Martin wrote: "The Piano Day founder eschews the piano for these 10 pieces, two of which nudge the half-hour mark, preferring to conjure a generally downcast mood of slowly unfurled tones and drones, through which chinks of light can be glimpsed occasionally."^[6]

Track listing

Disc One

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Dog With 1000 Faces"	26:21
2.	"Mussel Memory"	13:27
3.	"Seagull Scene"	13:09

Disc Two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sheep In Black and White"	24:47
2.	"Stepping Stone"	18:14
3.	"Briefly"	27:02

Disc Three

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Right Right Right"	7:29
2.	"World of Squares"	15:02
3.	"Lemon Day"	18:31
4.	"Do Dream"	22:36

Charts

Chart performance for Music for Animals

Chart (2022)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[7]	125
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[8]	82
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9]	29
Scottish Albums (OCC)[10]	29
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[11]	38
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[12]	12