Earthly Delights
by Lightning Bolt
  • Record Label: Load
  • Release Date: Oct 27, 2009
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Slant Magazine
    60
    The highlights demonstrate that these guys have yet to exhaust their uncanny vision, but by and large this is Lightning Bolt doing a Lightning Bolt album.
  2. Spin
    60
    Their unholy fuzz feels less triumphant, and the Helmet impression in opener 'Sound Guardians' is some kind of weird. Still, Lightning Bolt's basement has never sounded bigger.
  3. Mojo
    60
    Their fifth album still features plenty of trademark thrills - Brian Chippendale drumming junglist breakbeats at heart-attack velocity, bassist Brian Gibbon's' riffs sounding like a grindcore group playing gabba - while the bark-spitting tempo-shifts of opener Sound Guardians wouldn't alienate the Metallica set. [Jan 2010, p. 96]
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Awards & Rankings

88
#88 Best Album of 2009

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User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 20
  3. Negative: 4 out of 20
  1. AShinyG1ratina
    Jun 22, 2022
    6
    It's definitely not their best but Lightning Bolt continue to impress me with how complex their soundscapes can be. Nation of Boar inIt's definitely not their best but Lightning Bolt continue to impress me with how complex their soundscapes can be. Nation of Boar in particular is a big standout.… Full Review »
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