Front Row Seat to Earth

Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
Critic Score
Based on 13 reviews
2016 Ratings: #135 / 1004
User Score
Based on 994 ratings
2016 Rank: #100
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
The Guardian

It’s beautiful, unsettling and wholly compelling.

85
Under the Radar
In this album for insane times, Mering has attained universal connectedness while allowing us into her own excruciatingly cathartic purview, no easy feat.
83
Pitchfork

She commits more fully to the world she’s building here, though 2014’s sprawling rock rumination The Innocents is not without its highlights.

80
The 405

Mering wrings out so much emotion from her voice that these songs burst with human vitality – and that is the main thing to take away from here.

80
The Line of Best Fit

Front Row Seat to Earth ... turns down some of the lonely static and tape warp of previous full length The Innocents and finds a broader folk balladry imbued with Laurel Canyon breeze that’s still tempered by contemporary turmoil.

80
Exclaim!

Front Row Seat to Earth might not be the most immediate record released this year, but it never turns its back on you. Accessible without ever being simple, it's one worth getting into, even if the way is labyrinthine.

80
Clash
In an age where everything must be louder than a Michael Bay flick hearing true sonic range is a rare delight, every instrument and backing vocal helping build a gentler whole.
80
Uncut

Front Row Seat To Earth--intimate and enveloping, romantic and psychedelic--marks a significant progression in Mering's increasingly impressive career.

70
AllMusic
Here singer/songwriter Natalie Mering continues to refine her psychedelic folk-pop sound, placing less of an emphasis on experimentation and spotlighting her stunning voice and introspective, poetic lyrics.
70
Loud and Quiet

The lyrics are divine, and when it’s good (‘Seven Words’, ‘Do You Need My Love’) it is very, very good indeed.

70
FLOOD Magazine
Natalie Meringโ€™s newest release straddles the world we inhabit and the marvels we imagine beyond it.
60
The Observer
The apocalypse has found its smoke-voiced sibyl.
laz456
80

Just to stir some drama Weyes Blood >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lana Del Rey

pengtings
84

I LOVE WEYES BLOOD GRARRRR

Diegocar17
92

To this date, February 15h, 2023, I have listened to 162 albums (I know its not that much) from several artists from different genres, and as of now I want to declare that Ms. Natalie Mering AKA Weyes Blood has become my favorite musician of all time. During my entire life, her music has been the most beautiful thing that has blessed my ears, she's just ridiculously good at doing this. Her singing, her lyrics, the production are just so good that I can't use words to describe them. I'm ... read more

KINGKUNTA
83

This girl can sing

Kiwo
95

"Do You Need My Love" is just too perfect

sekedeluza
100

wow

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Track List

1Diary
5:36
91
2Used to Be
4:32
91
3Be Free
6:22
88
4Do You Need My Love
6:25
93
5Generation Why
5:21
91
6Can't Go Home
4:40
83
7Seven Words
4:37
91
8Away Above
5:18
85
9Front Row Seat
1:55
83
Total Length: 44 minutes
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Added on: August 15, 2016