If Throw Me the Statue's first record, Moonbeams, skirted around frontman S… Read Full Bio ↴If Throw Me the Statue's first record, Moonbeams, skirted around frontman Scott Reitherman's potential as a pop songwriter, then the band's sophomore effort, Creaturesque, is the realization of all the promise that shone through Moonbeams' best tracks. But where Moonbeams was inconsistent and rough around the edges, Creaturesque is much more polished, a bright, buoyant opus of similarly hooky, uptempo songs. While TMTS' success still hangs on its guitar hooks and propulsive song structure, it's the synthesizer, the brass, and the little accents like white noise or an occasional xylophone ping that stand out this time. The only thing that hasn't changed at all since the last record is Reitherman's disjointed, occasionally indecipherable prose, which he croons in a high-pitched tenor that can sound either soft and ethereal or thin and reedy.
Though Creaturesque's success rides chiefly on melody, tunes can't save a pop song from unappealing verbal cliché. But Reitherman crafts his lyrics as deliberately as his instrumentals. Creaturesque simmers with sexual tension, a well-traversed theme Reitherman addresses in riddle and metaphor. In "Pistols," he sings "You little boys fall on your pistols/Annie, does your boyfriend know?/You seek a habit and a small feeling of danger/Slow glide down through the canyon/Tearing the layers off with abandon." "Pistol" and "canyon" are obvious euphemisms, but the song's three-word refrain cinches it: "Pull me in." At its core, Creaturesque is about reconciling our basest animal instincts with the complex emotional demands that make us human. Because we're not animals. Not exactly. We're just...creaturesque.
-- by SARA BRICKNER
Though Creaturesque's success rides chiefly on melody, tunes can't save a pop song from unappealing verbal cliché. But Reitherman crafts his lyrics as deliberately as his instrumentals. Creaturesque simmers with sexual tension, a well-traversed theme Reitherman addresses in riddle and metaphor. In "Pistols," he sings "You little boys fall on your pistols/Annie, does your boyfriend know?/You seek a habit and a small feeling of danger/Slow glide down through the canyon/Tearing the layers off with abandon." "Pistol" and "canyon" are obvious euphemisms, but the song's three-word refrain cinches it: "Pull me in." At its core, Creaturesque is about reconciling our basest animal instincts with the complex emotional demands that make us human. Because we're not animals. Not exactly. We're just...creaturesque.
-- by SARA BRICKNER
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Creaturesque
Throw Me The Statue Lyrics
Ancestors Austin breeze, you pack some punch We were having such flagr…
Hi-Fi Goon Best oh Shut down I'd go let down with you I wonder what's…
Noises Vagabond haze You get lost when you find hope in a…
Pistols Top down, not like we miss you* You little boys fall…
Snowshoes I must really been gone to think that this would…
Tag Airplane of our trees Spaces and what it seems But let's g…
Waving At The Shore Staring at the creek Thumbing her nose Burning my habits How…