A Sailor's Guide to Earth
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| Studio album by Sturgill Simpson | ||||||||||
| Released | April 15, 2016 | |||||||||
| Studio | Butcher Shoppe in Nashville | |||||||||
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| Length | 38:54 | |||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||||
| Producer | Sturgill Simpson | |||||||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 86/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Consequence of Sound | B |
| Entertainment Weekly | A- |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.0/10 |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Spin Magazine | 7/10 |
A Sailor's Guide to Earth is the third studio album by American country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson. It was announced on March 3, 2016, with the release of the single "Brace for Impact (Live a Little)". The album was released on April 15, 2016, and is nominated for Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the upcoming 59th Grammy Awards.
Prior to the album's announcement, Simpson stated in an interview with GQ that "what's next is already finished... Quite honestly, I need about six months at home with my family." On March 3, 2016, Simpson released "Brace for Impact (Live a Little)" on YouTube and his website; the next day he released the nine-song track list of A Sailor's Guide to Earth. A week later, he published the music video for "Brace for Impact", which was directed by Matt Mahurin and contains the Grim Reaper, a hot rod coffin and sailboats. On March 24, 2016, Simpson released his cover of Nirvana's "In Bloom" along with its music video, also directed by Matt Mahurin. Simpson said, "I wanted to make a very beautiful and pure homage to Kurt [Cobain]." Streaming of the album became available on April 7, 2016, on NPR's official website.
The song "Oh Sarah" was previously recorded by Simpson's former band Sunday Valley and appeared on their only full-length album, To the Wind and On To Heaven, in 2011.
A Sailor's Guide to Earth received widespread critical acclaim upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 86, indicating "universal acclaim", based on 19 reviews.
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