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80
Some fans of Bird's past work might find this album hard going. It is certainly experimental, but has the restraint to draw the line before showboating and indulgence creep in.
10y
80
It was a good move on his part to treat Useless Creatures as a real album rather than a collection of outtakes. If you’re a fan of the man, it’d be in your best interest to do the same.
10y
70
If there’s one thing, though, to take from Useless Creatures, it’s that some things can be beautiful, no matter how useless they might be.
10y
68
Creatures isn’t as engaging as one of his conventional albums nor as thrilling as one his live shows but at the very least it’s gives us fifty minutes of how this man might well spend his morning. And for a man as musically interesting as Bird, that’s no bad thing.
10y
60
Useless Creatures provides fans who covet the meandering, more exploratory tracks that often populate his proper albums with a full plate, while giving those who are drawn more to his radio-friendly pop leanings an out.
10y
Just explored the world as a little beetle. You know an album is just a stream of consciousness when there's a 40-second long song that's just electric guitar in between a ton of brilliantly crafted 5+ minute long mini adventures
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Track List
| 1 | Master Sigh 2:16 | |
| 2 | You Woke Me Up! 7:24 | |
| 3 | Nyatiti 4:01 | |
| 4 | The Barn Tapes 10:12 | |
| 5 | Carrion Suite 9:39 | |
| 6 | Spinney 0:45 | |
| 7 | Dissent 3:54 | |
| 8 | Hot Math 7:18 | |
| 9 | Sigh Master 5:32 |
Total Length: 51 minutes
