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Life On Earth

Tiny Vipers

Life On Earth

Seattle singer-songwriter and guitarist Jesy Fortino with an album of avant-garde acoustic folk

Label
Sub Pop
UK Release date
06/07/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    But if the worst thing that can be said about an album is that it’s too intense, there must be a lot right about it and there definitely is here. While it won’t be for everyone, and won’t be an album for all occasions, Life on Earth is a stark, devastating achievement
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  2. 7.0 |   Spin

    ...recalls another college-radio favorite, Morphine. Fortino may not look like rain, but she sounds like it
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  3. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Has a lot in common with Sunn O))) and Lightning Bolt, who take genre conventions to such brutal extremes that they emerge somewhere out the other side, operating in a space entirely of their own creation. The space Tiny Vipers have found is so intimate, so personal, that listening to this music generates a feeling of great personal intrusion, like stumbling upon someone caught in the throes of something so ugly that you just can’t tear your eyes away
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