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Front Row Seat to Earth is the third studio album by American musician Weyes Blood. It was released on October 21, 2016, by Mexican Summer.

Front Row Seat to Earth
Studio album by Weyes Blood
Released	October 21, 2016 (2016-10-21)
Genre	Baroque pop[1] folk-pop[2] psychedelic folk[3]
Length	44:46
Label	Mexican Summer
Producer	Weyes Blood Chris Cohen
Weyes Blood chronology
The Innocents (2014) Front Row Seat to Earth (2016) Titanic Rising (2019)
Singles from Front Row Seat To Earth
"Seven Words" Released: August 10th, 2016 "Do You Need My Love?" Released: September 7th, 2016 "Generation Why" Released: October 3rd, 2016 "Be Free" Released: November 7th, 2016

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.7/10[4]
Metacritic	82/100[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Clash	8/10[1]
Exclaim!	8/10[6]
The Guardian	[7]
The Line of Best Fit	8/10[8]
The Observer	[9]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[10]
Uncut	8/10[11]
Under the Radar	8.5/10[3]

The album's cover art was photographed beside the Salton Sea.

Composition

Donning "the misty sounds of late '60s folk and '70s AM radio,"[10] Front Row Seat to Earth pushes forward in Blood's "glacial slide towards psychedelic folk", yielding comparisons to Kevin Ayers, Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, and Bridget St. John.[3]

Track listing

The digital download that came with the vinyl edition also featured an exclusive bonus track, "Three Tears" (4:59), that played at the end of the album after "Front Row Seat". It also featured on the B-side of the 7" edition of "Seven Words", but has otherwise not been made available elsewhere.[12]

Singles

On August 10th 2016, "Seven Words" was issued as the first single from the as yet unreleased LP as a digital download and on streaming services.[13] It was given "Best New Track" status on Pitchfork, with a review by Sam Sodomsky stating that the song "conjures a kaleidoscopic vision of the 1970s’ best kept secrets".[14] A memorable promotional video was also made for the song, in which Merring is forcibly fed something that looks like raw octopus and turns into a mermaid.[15]

A 7" single of "Seven Words", with LP digital bonus track "Three Tears" on the B side was released in October by Mexican Summer. Some of these were distributed randomly to Vinyl Me Please subscribers,[16] whilst others were sold on tour at Weyes Blood gigs.

On September 7th, a second single, "Do You Need My Love", was put up online[17] and was also given best new track on Pitchfork.[18] A third single, "Generation Why", followed on October 3rd[19]

A video for a fourth single, "Used To Be", was also released on November 7th, after the album had been issued.[20]

Critical Response

"Front Row Seat To Earth" was generally well received by the critics. It has a score of 82 on the Metacritic website, which denotes "universal acclaim", based on 12 reviews.[21] At the most favourable end, Michael Hann gave it a five star review for The Guardian, referring to it as "beautiful, unsettling and wholly compelling". Though critical reviews were hard to come by, Emily Mackay of The Observer(UK) gave it a lukewarm three stars but still seemed to enjoy the album, saying that Merring's "deep, pure, Karen Carpenter croon...could still slavering beasts".[22]

Accolades

Publication	List	Rank	Ref.
Pitchfork	The 50 Best Albums of 2016	43	[23]
Under the Radar	Top 100 Albums of 2016	9	[24]

References

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[ru] Front Row Seat to Earth

Front Row Seat to Earth — третий студийный альбом американской рок-певицы и автора-исполнителя Уайз Блад, вышедший 21 октября 2016 года на лейбле Mexican Summer. Диск получил положительные отзывы музыкальных критиков.

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