Anima Animus is the third album

Album

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 to be released by British duo The Creatures

The Creatures

The Creatures were a musical act formed in 1981 as a side-project for Siouxsie and the Banshees members Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie. The Times described their music as "adventurous art rock built around Siouxsie's extraordinary voice and drummer Budgie's battery of percussion".With the dissolution of...

 aka singer Siouxsie and musician Budgie

Budgie (drummer)

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. The title of the album was inspired by Carl Jung's concept of transgender

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, the woman

Woman

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 inside the man

Man

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, the man inside the woman. The album was released in 1999.

PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.Harvey began her career in...

 selected Anima Animus in her Top 10 Albums of 1999. She posted it on her site in January 2000.

Critical reception

This album was well received by critics. The Times

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noted it 8/10 and wrote : "Siouxsie, has rarely been in better voice. The opening track, Second Floor is a fantastically knowing melodrama, riding a techno pulse, while the ominous, epic Exterminating Angel pursues its prey in lamplit streets. It's entrancing, hypnotic and inventive". The Sunday Times

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also praised and presented it in these glowing terms : "Siouxsie's voice has lost none of its ability to seduce and unsettle. The sound is percussive, defined by Budgie's supple rhythm work. Exterminating Angel is exquisitely menacing, while the sinuous Another Planet grows to a shuddering climax." Uncut

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gave the note of 4/5 and Chris Roberts said : "Sioux's always been at her best as a harsh declaimer, PJ Harvey on steroids, but there are phases where she whispers, breathes, reaches for vulnerability", before concluding "The Creatures have jettisoned comfort and are phoning home from a new end zone. Anima Animus crackles."

History

The original title had to be called Gifthorse then Mount venus but the duo changed their mind to finally opt for Anima Animus. The first single "Second Floor" was issued in late 1998 shortly after the four tracks ep, "Eraser Cut

Eraser Cut (EP)

Eraser Cut is an EP by British duo The Creatures . It contains four unreleased songs taken from the Anima Animus recording sessions which took place in 1995-1996. This EP was later included on the compilation U.S. Retrace.After the last Banshees tour, The Creatures reconvened in the autumn 1995...

". Another single "Say" featured two unreleased b-sides, the acoustic "Broken" and the atmospheric "All She Could Ask For" ; the latter song opened their concerts of 1999.
This material was later included on the US Retrace

US Retrace

U.S. Retrace is a compilation album by the British act The Creatures aka singer Siouxsie and musician Budgie. It reunites out of print material : the Eraser Cut EP initially released in July 1998 and a couple of B-sides appeared on the "Say" cd-single."All She Could Ask For" first appeared on...

compilation cd.

Track listing

1. "2nd Floor"
2. "Disconnected"
3. "Turn It On"
4. "Take Mine"
5. "Say"
6. "I Was Me"
7. "Prettiest Thing"
8. "Exterminating Angel" featuring Juno Reactor
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9. "Another Planet"
10. "Don't Go to Sleep Without Me"