Little Creatures
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Little Creatures
Little Creatures is the sixth studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on June 10, 1985 by Sire Records. The album examines themes of Americana and incorporates elements of country music, with many songs featuring steel guitar. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll, and is the band's best-selling studio album, with over two million copies sold in the United States. The cover art was created by outsider artist Howard Finster, and was selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Though this is a modest, enchanting album, those who equate creativity with complexity will undoubtedly dismiss it as old wave.
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All Music
Little Creatures was a pop album, and an accomplished one, by a band that knew what it was doing.
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Rhino
Any way you slice it, the Talking Heads were snuggly ensconced in the pop mainstream, a position it would embrace for a few more years, before dissolving entirely.
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Sputnik Music
Little Creatures is actually pretty great! It's the band at its catchiest, to be sure, and it's about as far from the Brian Eno-produced masterpieces Fear of Music and Remain in Light as you can get, but this is still one hell of a pop album.
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Spectrum Culture
Maybe Little Creatures wasn’t a deliberate attempt at mainstream popularity, but there’s little doubt that it’s one of Talking Heads’ most accessible albums.
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Common Sense Media
Art-punk pioneers score with catchy pop album.
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
Little Creatures spawned some excellent singles, but some of the album tracks are flat, and overall it was their weakest album to date.
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COS
Whether it’s thanks to a less collaborative recording process, increased cash concerns, or David Byrne finally becoming comfortable in his own skin, Little Creatures stands as the first Talking Heads record that you can take at face value.
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Only Solitaire
The album, as befits a good Heads album, is laiden with hooks throughout.
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WARR
Probably the most pure fun you'll find on a Heads record.
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Mark Prindle
A generic pop album, quite the bizarre concept for a band so generally interested in baffling and impressing us.
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Power of Pop
I found myself enjoying the catchy songwriting especially “Burning Down the House” and “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”. Presumably that is why I consider Little Creatures to be my favourite Talking Heads LP as it featured more conventional pop-rock, not to mention the introduction of country-folk into the dynamic.
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GQ
The album emitted more of an old-wave feel, and that’s not to dismiss it – the production was just different. The largely skeletal instrumentation is the cleanest it had ever been on here, which helped to draw attention to Byrne’s vocals, heavily nodding to conventional codes of American living and a fair few feelings about love.
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Diffuser
No mater, 'Little Creatures' is the group's most playful and fun album, with accordion, steel guitar and even washboard pushing it along.
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