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Life on Earth (Hurray for the Riff Raff album)

2022 studio album by Hurray for the Riff Raff

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ122920223 ↗
Source-derived summary

Life on Earth is the seventh studio album by Hurray for the Riff Raff, released on February 18, 2022, through Nonesuch Records, their first release through the label. It received acclaim from critics.

Critical reception

Life on Earth received a score of 87 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on 13 critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Editors at aggregator AnyDecentMusic? summarized the reviews as an 8.1 out of 10.

Pitchfork's review of the album mentioned that Alynda Segarra's work has never sounded more honest and self-possessed. Paste magazine's review of Life On Earth declared "What matters are the travails we endure to appreciate goodness.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Life on Earth (Hurray for the Riff Raff album)” as 2022 studio album by Hurray for the Riff Raff. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Life, Earth and Hurray can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2022 studio album by Hurray for the Riff Raff. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q122920223. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Life on Earth (Hurray for the Riff Raff album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.