If Throw Me the Statue's first record, Moonbeams, skirted around frontman Scott Reitherman's potential as a pop songwriter, then the band's sophomore effort, Creaturesque, is the realization of all the promise that shone through Moonbeams' best tracks. But where Moonbeams was inconsistent and rough around the edges, Creaturesque is much more polished, a bright, buoyant opus of similarly hooky, uptempo songs. While TMTS' success still hangs on its guitar hooks and propulsive song structure, it's the synthesizer, the brass, and the little accents like white noise or an occasional xylophone ping that stand out this time. The only thing that Read more on Last.fm.
