Little Creatures by Talking Heads

What Talking Heads achieved on Little Creatures was something critics often undervalue: the making of a great pop album that doesn't feel like a compromise. Pop, in the pejorative sense the word is sometimes used, implies sacrifice — of depth, of strangeness, of genuine artistic intent. But Little Creatures sacrifices none of those things. It simply reorganises them, placing melody and warmth at the centre rather than the edges. The songs are immediate without being shallow, accessible without being bland. There's still plenty of Byrne's sideways lyricism at work, his ability to describe ordinary human experience from a slight remove that makes the familiar suddenly luminous. He hadn't stopped being strange; he had simply found something worth being strange about.Featured songs:And She WasThe Lady Don’t MindStay Up LateCreatures Of LoveTelevision ManRoad To Nowhere