Life on Earth (Tiny Vipers album)

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Life on Earth
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 7, 2009 (CD, Digital)
November 16, 2009 (Vinyl)
Length65:31
Label Sub Pop Records
Producer Jesy Fortino
Tiny Vipers chronology
Tiny Vipers
(2007)
Life on Earth
(2009)
Weak Moments of the Shadows
(2009)
Alternative cover
Tiny Vipers - Life On Earth (Vinyl Cover).jpg
Vinyl Edition cover
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 68/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Drowned In Sound (6/10) [3]
Pitchfork Media (7.8/10) [4]
PopMatters (7/10) [5]
SputnikmusicStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [6]
Tiny Mix Tapes TMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT full.svgTMT half.svg [7]

Life on Earth is the second full-length album released by Tiny Vipers on Sub Pop Records on July 7, 2009. In a June 2009 track review, Pitchfork Media awarded "Dreamer" their Best New Music accolade. [8]

Contents

Luckyhorse Industries released a 180 gram double vinyl edition on November 16, 2009. It was limited to 500 copies with numbered handmade covers, the first 30 of which were printed on green marble vinyl. "Audrey's Well" is included as a bonus track.

Track listing

  1. "Eyes Like Ours" – 5:50
  2. "Development" – 6:08
  3. "Slow Motion" – 4:03
  4. "Dreamer" – 4:14
  5. "Time Takes" – 5:51
  6. "Young God" – 4:52
  7. "Life on Earth" – 10:12
  8. "CM" – 3:05
  9. "Tiger Mountain" – 6:22
  10. "Twilight Property" – 7:52
  11. "Outside" – 6:02
  12. "Audrey's Well" - 8:33 (vinyl only bonus track)

As of 2020, the album's digital download tracklist on Fortino's Bandcamp page has been truncated and re-ordered without explanation. [9] The new track order there is

  1. "Eyes Like Ours" – 5:50
  2. "Development" – 6:08
  3. "Life on Earth" – 10:12
  4. "CM" – 3:05
  5. "Dreamer" – 4:14
  6. "Slow Motion" – 4:03
  7. "Outside" – 6:02

Bonus disc

  1. "Blades of Grass" - 37:37

Bonus disc is a CD-R that was available only by pre-ordering the album on Sub Pop's website, although select independent record stores included it as a bundle with the album.

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