Life on Earth

Tiny Vipers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 7, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sub Pop
• ASIN: B002APNC94
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,742 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 7-JUL-2009

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Majestic Sadness, July 24, 2009

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Joel D. Kreager "Joel" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life on Earth (Audio CD)

If you are a reflective person, this album will open vistas to you. It is utterly stark and majestic, simply her voice and guitar through most of the album. The feeling she projects using these simple means is breathtaking. The album becomes more experimental with "Young God" and "Twilight Property." Here she is working with sound and murky vocal and guitar to create more of a soundscape than a song. This album has truly great inward vision and strength. It is the sound of your own heart beating and the wind in the trees. It is the feeling inside your chest that is the reason why you care for someone else.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Dramatic Stark Landscape, July 29, 2009

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L.Grasslands - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life on Earth (Audio CD)

A stunning journey of a record. Jesy takes the listener on an incredibly intimate journey through the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, as it's reflected in the happenings of her life. It seems the landscape has become a metaphor for her, and the instances and deeds of her life and she translate them flawless, dare I say even better that Laura Veirs. Jesy is much more solitary than Veirs, her work in more stark and intricate, but it is (for me at any rate) more rewarding , maybe I just prefer the romanticism of the loneliness and heartbroken beauty of Tiny Vipers.

4.0 out of 5 stars Turn out the lights..., October 20, 2011

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This review is from: Life on Earth (Audio CD)

...You'll want to listen to this album at night, alone, in the dark, with a candle flickering across the room.

If I had to abandon my entire music collection but for a single desert island mix tape, any of the first four songs on this album could make the cut. Music just doesn't get any better. The rest of the album is great but less sublime. If I'm not in the right mood, "Young God" and "Untitled" seem way too dreary, even for an album like this one. But Jesy Fortino's talent is undeniable, and when I AM in the mood for it, Life on Earth haunts me in a way that few albums can. Its sad, delicate beauty is mesmerizing. I give Life on Earth four to five stars, depending on whether my emotional state matches its lonely, isolated sound when I'm listening to it. I'm in awe of Jesy Fortino, but I know she can do better. I hope she makes a lot more music to prove me right.