A Sailor's Guide to Earth
by Sturgill Simpson
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Apr 15, 2016
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8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 83 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 0 out of 83
  3. Negative: 6 out of 83
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86

Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
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  1. The Telegraph (UK)
    May 13, 2016
    80
    Sturgill Simpson has recorded an interesting album about the lure of home. Musically, it's a bold step away from the excellent Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (there's more soul and brass in A Sailor's Guide to Earth) but the songwriting remains strong and beguiling.
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  2. Q Magazine
    May 5, 2016
    80
    A Sailor's Guide to Earth is audacious in a genre that prizes hat size over innovation, a concept album about parenting and childhood intended for consumption in one continuous sitting like a short story. [Jul 2016, p.114]
  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Apr 19, 2016
    90
    Cue nuggets of advice from someone who’s had his own share of knocks, self-inflicted and otherwise, as Simpson and the band tackle brassy R&B, Memphis soul and swampy country, augmented by semi-orchestral strings and bound together by his extraordinary baritone.
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