Calm Animals is the fifth studio album by British band the Fixx, released on February 7, 1989. 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. 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

Trouser Press noted that "the rock-oriented Calm Animals ... has no songs worth mentioning." 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."

Track listing

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

• bonus track on 2001 CD re-issue

Personnel

The Fixx

Production

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States) Singles - Billboard (United States)