Customer Reviews

Life on Earth

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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.

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.

...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.

Tiny Vipers is the moniker of Seattle based singer/songwriter Jesy Fortino. Life On Earth is a beautiful, delicate, reflective work. These songs are rendered in mostly acoustic guitar and voice format. There's a little piano on the song Young God, some well-placed whistling on Development. Jesy Fortino has a simply gorgeous set of pipes. Alternately sad and hopeful, Jesy Fortino is an old soul, wise beyond her young years. The songs on Life On Earth will stay with you like a firmly etched memory. Kudos to Andrew Hernandez at Premium Recordings in Austin, Texas for a marvellous job of capturing these tunes on tape. Enthusiastically recommended and I'll rate it four and a half stars!

Like one of the reviewers said, this is a very subtle, acoustic album perfect for reflection or a glass of wine and a cigarette for some downtime. Songs like Tiger Mountain, Twilight Property, Outside, and Young God seem to stick out but this is one of those CDs you can play without skipping. If you like this album, then check out her first one, Hands Across the Void. *droooolz*