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{{Infobox album
| name       = Creative Playthings
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Brad Laner|Electric Company]]
| cover      = Electric Company - Creative Playthings.jpeg
| alt        =
| released   = October 5, 2004
| recorded   = Lab of Happy Dreams, Encino, CA
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Intelligent dance music|IDM]]
| length     = 42:11
| label      = [[Tigerbeat6]]
| producer   = [[Brad Laner]]
| chronology = [[Brad Laner]]
| prev_title = [[It's Hard to Be a Baby]]
| prev_year  = 2003
| next_title = [[Neighbor Singing]]
| next_year  = 2007
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Rob |last=Theakston |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r711111|pure_url=yes}}|title=Creative Playthings |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=June 16, 2013}}</ref>
|rev2 = [[Pitchfork Media]]
|rev2score = (7.1/10)<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web |first=Cameron |last=Macdonald |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2731-creative-playthings/ |title=Electric Company: Creative Playthings |publisher=Pitchfork Media |date=November 14, 2004 |accessdate=June 16, 2013}}</ref>
}}
'''''Creative Playthings''''' is the seventh album by [[Brad Laner|Electric Company]], released on October 5, 2004 through [[Tigerbeat6]].
==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| all_writing     = [[Brad Laner]]
| title1          = Stand Close, Don't Flatter Yourself
| length1         = 2:22
| title2          = A Rainbow of Traction
| length2         = 2:21
| title3          = The Crab Eating Fox
| length3         = 2:03
| title4          = Early Teeth
| length4         = 2:10
| title5          = Theme from the Mushroom Shaped Tongue
| length5         = 2:21
| title6          = Is There Another Door to Door?
| length6         = 2:34
| title7          = Cancer and My Name Is Larry
| length7         = 2:00
| title8          = Crates of Dead Orange Markers
| length8         = 1:29
| title9          = Last Anus for 17 Miles
| length9         = 2:21
| title10          = Jarhead
| length10         = 2:31
| title11          = Vernal Blue Extract
| length11         = 2:53
| title12          = Recalcitrant Remote Comptroller
| length12         = 2:10
| title13          = Eighteen Hard Feelings
| length13         = 2:36
| title14          = She'll Be in Foal Again
| length14         = 2:01
| title15          = Murexes and Sacoglossans
| length15         = 2:06
| title16          = The Purveyor of Delusion
| length16         = 2:17
| title17          = Other Numbers Besides Locomotion
| length17         = 2:17
| title18          = Little Chachalaca
| length18         = 3:39
}}
== Personnel ==
*[[Brad Laner]]&nbsp;– vocals, [[Musical instrument|instruments]], production
*[[Chris Pitman]]&nbsp;– synthesizer
*Tim Saputo&nbsp;– design
*[[Terryn Westbrook]]&nbsp;– vocals
== References ==
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{{Brad Laner}}
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[[Category:2004 albums]]
[[Category:Electric Company (band) albums]]
[[Category:Tigerbeat6 albums]]