Editing Calm Animals (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/calm-animals-mw0000202704|title=Calm Animals The Fixx|website=AllMusic|accessdate=28 April 2019}}</ref>
}}
''[[Trouser Press]]'' noted that "the rock-oriented ''Calm Animals'' ... has no songs worth mentioning."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Robbins |first1=Ira |title=Fixx |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/fixx/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=9 July 2024}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote that the album "has some familiar moments when they recapture their old seductive combination of sin and synth, but the ska-funkincense that powered early Fixx has been flattened to pop-metal."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zibart |first1=Eve |title=Soporific Brit-Pop: Bring on the Frowns |work=The Washington Post |date=24 Mar 1989 |page=N25}}</ref>