Creative Playthings (album)

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Creative Playthings
Electric Company - Creative Playthings.jpeg
Studio album by Electric Company
Released October 5, 2004
Recorded Lab of Happy Dreams, Encino, CA
Genre IDM
Length42:11
Label Tigerbeat6
Producer Brad Laner
Brad Laner chronology
It's Hard to Be a Baby
(2003)		Creative Playthings
(2004)		 Neighbor Singing
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pitchfork Media (7.1/10) [2]

Creative Playthings is the seventh album by Electric Company, released on October 5, 2004 through Tigerbeat6.

Brad Laner is an American musician and record producer best known for his work with the shoegaze band Medicine, which he founded and led.

Tigerbeat6 is a San Francisco and Berlin based independent and (mostly) electronic record label run by Kid606. The label is run as a DIY operation and releases a variety of electronic music styles, including noisecore, intelligent dance music, bedroom pop, folktronica, and electronica-driven hip hop. The name reflects De Pedro's obsession with cats, which also comes to light in the catalogue numbers, all of which start with MEOW. It is also a loose reference to the top-selling teen magazine Tiger Beat. The label's first release was in 2000; it has over two hundred releases in total. A 2001 compilation of the label's output was described as "stripping intelligent dance music of its intelligence[,] often resorting to outright silliness, and sometimes parody." The A.V. Club described the same compilation as satirizing glitch through "gestures borrowed from punk, indie-rock, and hip-hop."

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Brad Laner.

No.TitleLength
1."Stand Close, Don't Flatter Yourself"2:22
2."A Rainbow of Traction"2:21
3."The Crab Eating Fox"2:03
4."Early Teeth"2:10
5."Theme from the Mushroom Shaped Tongue"2:21
6."Is There Another Door to Door?"2:34
7."Cancer and My Name Is Larry"2:00
8."Crates of Dead Orange Markers"1:29
9."Last Anus for 17 Miles"2:21
10."Jarhead"2:31
11."Vernal Blue Extract"2:53
12."Recalcitrant Remote Comptroller"2:10
13."Eighteen Hard Feelings"2:36
14."She'll Be in Foal Again"2:01
15."Murexes and Sacoglossans"2:06
16."The Purveyor of Delusion"2:17
17."Other Numbers Besides Locomotion"2:17
18."Little Chachalaca"3:39

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Theakston, Rob. "Creative Playthings". Allmusic. Retrieved June 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ Macdonald, Cameron (November 14, 2004). "Electric Company: Creative Playthings". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved June 16, 2013.
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