Earthly Delights (album)

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Earthly Delights
Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 13, 2009
Recorded2007-2008
Genre Noise rock
Length50:54
Label Load (LOAD #126)
Lightning Bolt chronology
Hypermagic Mountain
(2005)
Earthly Delights
(2009)
Oblivion Hunter
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club A [3]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [4]
Pitchfork Media 7.6/10 [5]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Earthly Delights is the fifth studio album by the noise rock band Lightning Bolt. It was released on October 13, 2009, by Load Records. [7]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lightning Bolt.

No.TitleLength
1."Sound Guardians"4:52
2."Nation of Boar"6:10
3."Colossus"7:14
4."The Sublime Freak"4:27
5."Flooded Chamber"4:22
6."Funny Farm"5:39
7."Rain on Lake I'm Swimming In"2:14
8."S.O.S."3:41
9."Transmissionary"12:20
Total length:50:54

Personnel

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