Sub Pop Records : Tiny Vipers : Life on Earth

TINY VIPERS

Life on Earth - SP836

Tiny Vipers is Jesy Fortino, a musician living in Seattle. Since her last and first album, 2007’s Hands Across the Void, she has been back and forth across Europe, on tours into and through the United States, transfixing audiences into a solemn hush. Transcending the mere folk tag (“She’s not telling stories; she’s after incantation and trance” — New York Times), Fortino draws from disparate inspirational sources, from the avant-garde or from country musician Townes Van Zandt. Recordings for the new album began at home and were then interpreted by Andrew Hernandez in a classic analog studio in Austin, TX. Retaining both the glow of her work on guitar and the strength of her voice, Hernandez has captured the organic nature mirrored in the concepts of the album. Life on Earth gives musical life to those themes that inhabit her lyricisms: love found and lost, places come and gone. The future annihilates the past, consuming it like a fire. A shining hope permeates the threat of doom here. Desperation fades and leaves you free in the end.

Released: 2009-07-07 (CD)

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TRACKS

Eyes Like Ours
Development
Slow Motion
Dreamer
Time Takes
Young God
Life on Earth
CM
Tiger Mountain
Twilight Property
Outside

New Tiny Vipers July 7th! Bonus CD with Pre-order!

PANDERING TO THE LOCALS: MAR. '07

PANDERING TO THE LOCALS MAY '07

Pissed Jeans Make a Mess of Seattle

New Tiny Vipers Song!

PANDERING TO THE LOCALS JULY '07

Tiny Vipers on KEXP @ Noon!

Pandering to the Locals August '07

Pandering to the Locals December '07

A Form of Paying Attention March 2009

SXSW Day Parties

Sub Pop Showcase at SXSW 2009

A Form of Paying Attention July 2009

Tiny Vipers' Life on Earth Out July 7th

Tiny Vipers, Life On Earth Out Today!

How Many Sub Poppers Does it Take to Screw In a Light Bulb?

COMMENTS

vinyl?

why is this not coming out on vinyl? we need this beautiful artwork in big! a poster, maybe?

by DerZensor @ June 11, 2009, 7:49 AM

Another plea for vinyl!

Sub Pop, this is seance music! Are we to light our incense and stumble through the twilit forest of Tiny Vipers with cds? The 1990s are past, Sub Pop. I’m trying to get a good poltergeist-vocals buzz going on here, and you’re dismissing our attempts—Jesy Fortino’s, and her audience’s— with a format unworthy of such monolithic and fog-shrouded melancholy. All frown. An important record is worth more! Please, Sub Pop/Blue Fairy, please—please—put this out on vinyl! I asked nicely!

by Ninja Rapp @ June 15, 2009, 10:54 AM

NEED TO HAVE THIS ON VINYL!

This is going to be the best most beautiful release this year and I am saddened too it will not be on the only format worthy of such music. Please Sub Pop Please release this on vinyl!!

by robschipul @ June 19, 2009, 5:25 PM

it can't hurt...

i have to join the plea for vinyl….and while you are printing, can you throw some copies of “hands across the void” on there too.

thanks in advance :)

by thurston @ June 21, 2009, 11:58 PM

Agreed

Im on the vinyl wagon

by GentBent @ June 22, 2009, 4:57 PM

There WILL be vinyl!

Luckyhorse Industries will release the vinyl of Life on Earth. Shooting for an August release. It will be double vinyl with bonus material not on the CD! Sub Pop will stock it in the web store in addition to it being available from Luckyhorse.

We’ll let you know more when we know more.

by Stu @ July 1, 2009, 12:43 PM