Front Row Seat to Earth
by Weyes Blood
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 56 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 56
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 56
  3. Negative: 6 out of 56
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  1. Onrush
    Oct 31, 2016
    8
    The album was surprisingly refreshing. Give it a listen when you need to relax. (Your review must be at least 150 characters long.) (fillers, fillers)
  2. PetCheetah
    Aug 16, 2020
    10
    i loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove it
  3. Ricko
    Apr 27, 2020
    9
    This album really caught me by surprise in that I listened to it after coming across "Titanic Rising" only to learn that I find "Front Row Seat to Earth" a superior effort. This is beautiful stuff and the range of melodies on show need to be heard to be believed. Weyes Blood brings us back to a time of purer pop music but its very much an album of the 21st century. If pop music was anThis album really caught me by surprise in that I listened to it after coming across "Titanic Rising" only to learn that I find "Front Row Seat to Earth" a superior effort. This is beautiful stuff and the range of melodies on show need to be heard to be believed. Weyes Blood brings us back to a time of purer pop music but its very much an album of the 21st century. If pop music was an illicit drug, this album would have a purity of 100%. I understand that "Titanic Rising" ironed out a few creases and is a step up in some aspects but like many older siblings, "Front Row Seat to Earth" simply has charms in its mistakes.… Expand
  4. DenefRobles
    Nov 1, 2020
    10
    Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before
  5. borgespedro
    Aug 23, 2022
    10
    um dos melhores álbuns que já ouvi. um compilado de convites ao canto coletivo sobre fracasso nas relações.
  6. Scraper
    Nov 16, 2016
    3
    A journey back to 70's songwriter campiness. I thought the album was dull and outdated. No real surprises, just track after track of music that would be played during a sad montage on a cartoon you used to watch in a onezie in 1985. Throwback styles to groovy eras in music and film will always get the highest explosive reviews from critics regardless of content - as long as the time periodA journey back to 70's songwriter campiness. I thought the album was dull and outdated. No real surprises, just track after track of music that would be played during a sad montage on a cartoon you used to watch in a onezie in 1985. Throwback styles to groovy eras in music and film will always get the highest explosive reviews from critics regardless of content - as long as the time period is nailed perfectly. Maybe because the critics now have only been alive for 25 years. I am still trying to understand how a direct imitation of something, posed as original art, is considered a bold move and an achievement.… Expand
  7. JEDE3
    May 23, 2017
    10
    If Joni Mitchell had soundtracked Clockwork Orange, I imagine this is what it would have sounded like. Patient and understated, haunting and gorgeous. The right context might help open it up, so I recommend finding a pretty back road or scenic vista. My favorite of 2016.
  8. Simao
    Oct 1, 2020
    9
    natalie set the bar so high with front row seat to earth. it’s a very cohesive body of work and it features some of her magnum opus. words really lack when trying to describe the album and it’s musicality that manages to get so near perfection.

    fav songs: be free, used to be, do you need my love

    least fav: can’t go home
  9. All_ButTrU4
    Sep 18, 2022
    7
    It’s beautiful, unsettling and wholly compelling. In this album for insane times, Mering has attained universal connectedness while allowing us into her own excruciatingly cathartic purview, no easy feat.
    Higlights:do you need my love?,seven words,diary

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Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Under The Radar
    Dec 14, 2016
    85
    In this album for insane times, Mering has attained universal connectedness while allowing us into her own excruciatingly cathartic purview, no easy feat.
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  2. The Guardian
    Nov 3, 2016
    100
    It’s beautiful, unsettling and wholly compelling.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Nov 1, 2016
    70
    Breezy and sunset-hued, the tone of the album is calm--a reassuring piano buoys the melody one moment, and, later, delicate woodwinds fade a song to black.
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