Creatures (Elf Power album)

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Creatures
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 7, 2002
Genre Indie pop, indie rock, experimental rock
Label spinART Records
Elf Power chronology
The Winter Is Coming
(2000)
Creatures
(2002)
Nothing's Going to Happen
(2002)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 77/100 [1]
Review scores
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Pitchfork Media (5.5/10) [3]

Creatures is the fifth full-length album by indie rock group Elf Power. It was released in 2002 on spinART Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Andrew Rieger, except for where noted.

  1. "Let the Serpent Sleep"
  2. "Everlasting Scream"
  3. "The Creature"
  4. "Palace of the Flames"
  5. "The Modern Mind"
  6. "Visions Of The Sea"
  7. "Things That Should Not Be"
  8. "Three Seeds" (Rieger, William Cullen Hart)
  9. "The Haze"
  10. "Unseen Hand"
  11. "The Creature Part II"

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References

  1. "Creatures by Elf Power". Metacritic . Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  2. Creatures at AllMusic
  3. Pitchfork Media review Archived 2008-01-16 at the Wayback Machine