Editing Calm Animals

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{{Infobox album|
| name       = Calm Animals
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[the Fixx]]
| cover      = The Fixx - Calm Animals.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = February 7, 1989<ref name="releasedate">Though 1988 is listed as the copyright and publishing date on the initial pressings of ''Calm Animals'', the booklet of ''[[Ultimate Collection (The Fixx album)|Ultimate Collection]]'' notes January 1989 as the release date of its debut single "Driven Out". Additionally, the Fixx wrote on [https://twitter.com/FixxOnline/status/564017057566842880 Twitter] on February 7, 2015, "Back on this day....in 1989.....we released #CalmAnimals.....", implying that the album was released on February 7, 1989.</ref>
| recorded   = 1988
| studio     = [[AIR Montserrat|AIR]] ([[Salem, Montserrat]])
| genre      = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| length     = 37:45
| label      = [[RCA Records|RCA]]
| producer   = William Wittman
| prev_title = [[React (The Fixx album)|React]]
| prev_year  = 1987
| next_title = [[Ink (The Fixx album)|Ink]]
| next_year  = 1991
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Calm Animals
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = Driven Out
 | single1date = 1989
 | single2     = Precious Stones
 | single2date = 1989
}}
}}
'''''Calm Animals''''' is the fifth studio album by [[Great Britain|British]] band [[the Fixx]], released on February 7, 1989.<ref name="releasedate"/> The single "Driven Out" gave them a No. 1 song on the [[Mainstream Rock Tracks]] chart in early 1989, and reached No. 55 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]. The single "Precious Stone" reached the top 25 on the [[Mainstream Rock Tracks]] chart later that year. ''Calm Animals'' was the Fixx's only album to be released on [[RCA Records]].

==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>

==Track listing==
All songs are written by [[Cy Curnin]], Adam Woods, Jamie West-Oram, Rupert Greenall, and Dan K. Brown, except where noted.

#"I'm Life" – 3:19
#"Driven Out" – 3:59
#"Subterranean" – 3:43
#"Precious Stone" (The Fixx, Woods) – 3:08
#"Gypsy Feet" (Curnin, The Fixx) – 4:03
#"Calm Animals" – 4:12
#"Shred of Evidence" – 3:41
#"The Flow" (Curnin, The Fixx) – 2:59
#"World Weary" (Curnin, The Fixx) – 4:38
#"Cause to Be Alarmed" (Curnin, The Fixx) – 3:46
#"Never Mind What You Leave Behind" [*] (Curnin, The Fixx) – 3:17

<nowiki>*</nowiki> bonus track on 2001 [[compact disc|CD]] re-issue

== Personnel ==

'''The Fixx'''
* [[Cy Curnin]] – lead vocals, guitars 
* Rupert Greenall – keyboards, backing vocals
* Jamie West-Oram – lead guitars, backing vocals
* Dan K. Brown – bass guitar, [[fretless bass]], backing vocals
* Adam Woods – drums, percussion, backing vocals

== Production ==
* William Wittman – producer 
* [[John Agnello]] – engineer 
* Richard Moakes – second engineer 
* David Thoener – mixing 
* Ted Trewhella – mix assistant 
* Ed Spyra – art direction
* Chris Parker – photography 
* [[George Underwood (artist)|George Underwood]] – paintings

==Charts==
'''Album''' - [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] (United States)
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="550px"
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
|-
|align="left"|1989
|align="left"|[[The Billboard 200]]
|align="left"|72
|-
|}

'''Singles''' - Billboard (United States)
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="550px"
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Single
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
|-
|align="left"|1989
|align="left"|"Driven Out"
|align="left"|[[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]
|align="left"|55
|-
|align="left"|1989
|align="left"|"Driven Out"
|align="left"|[[Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks|Mainstream Rock]]
|align="left"|1
|-
|align="left"|1989
|align="left"|"Driven Out"
|align="left"|[[Hot Modern Rock Tracks|Modern Rock]]
|align="left"|11
|-
|align="left"|1989
|align="left"|"Precious Stone"
|align="left"|Mainstream Rock
|align="left"|23
|-
|}

==References==
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{{The Fixx}}

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[[Category:The Fixx albums]]
[[Category:1989 albums]]
[[Category:RCA Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at AIR Studios]]