Curious Things

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Curious Things
Tinyfish curious things.jpg
Studio album by
Released4 May 2009
Genre Progressive rock
Length28:49
Label Festival Music
Producer Tinyfish
Mixed by Jem Godfrey
Tinyfish chronology
Tinyfish
(2006)
Curious Things
(2009)
One Night On Fire
(2009)

Curious Things is a mini-album by the English progressive rock band Tinyfish. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The June Jar" – 3:20
  2. "Ack Ack" – 0:25
  3. "She's All I Want" – 3:03
  4. "Driving All Night" – 4:12
  5. "Why VHF?" – 8:18
  6. "Wrecking Ball" - 3:28
  7. "Cinnamon" - 6:03

Personnel

Reception

Curious Things was named as fifteenth best album of 2009 by Geoff Barton [2] in Classic Rock Presents Prog, a sister publication of the UK magazine Classic Rock.

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References

  1. "allmusic ((( Curious Things > Overview )))". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  2. Barton, Geoff. Classic Rock Presents Prog (13).Missing or empty |title= (help)