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Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 22, 2011
    80
    This time Baird's own compositions dominate. [Nov 2011, p.100]
  2. The Wire
    Dec 6, 2011
    80
    Season Of Earth is music rooted deep in the black, black earth and whose only limit is the blue, blue sky. [Oct 2011, p.50]
  3. Q Magazine
    Nov 8, 2011
    80
    There's a little more in the mix here [than in her solo debut album], dabs of lap steel on Babylon and elsewhere, gentle harp flourishes on Song For Next Summer, but this is barely less lovely than its predecessor. [Nov. 2011, p. 127]
  4. Sep 22, 2011
    80
    By keeping everything in proportion, she's made the most easily approached record of her career.
  5. Sep 22, 2011
    80
    Seasons on Earth is like a wry, forgiving smile set to music, its pleasures veined with melancholy, its ruefulness buoyed by hope.
  6. Magnet
    Nov 11, 2011
    75
    This compelling album is dominated by a spirit of grace and hope. [#81, p. 53]
  7. Baird's own rather fabulous acoustic is garnished with touches of dobro, pedal-steel or electric, over which her wisp of a voice, and words, hang in a vapour.
  8. Sep 22, 2011
    70
    Her tender songcraft grows stronger.
  9. Sep 22, 2011
    70
    Seasons on Earth is a poetic, thoroughly engaging set from a now-mature songwriter, whose confidence in her musical language is as poetic as it is authoritative.
  10. Sep 22, 2011
    70
    Despite her love of folk traditions, and a classic voice, Baird keeps these songs from ever feeling dated.

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