| Good Luck, Seeker | ||||
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| Released | 21 August 2020 | |||
| Length | 48:40 | |||
| Label | Cooking Vinyl | |||
| Producer | Puck Fingers, Brother Paul | |||
| The Waterboys chronology | ||||
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Good Luck, Seeker is the fourteenth studio album bythe Waterboys, which was released byCooking Vinyl on 21 August 2020.[1]
Good Luck, Seeker was announced on 5 June, with the first song to be previewed from the album being "My Wanderings in the Weary Land".[2] The single "The Soul Singer" was released on 15 July.[3]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| American Songwriter | [4] |
| The Irish Times | [5] |
| musicOMH | [6] |
| Mojo | [7] |
| Uncut | [7] |
Timothy Monger ofAllMusic describedGood Luck, Seeker as an "eclectic jumble of wily mysticism, rock & roll romance, oddball tributes, and canned dance beats". He felt the album was "not one of the great Waterboys albums", but "an adventurous one with enough standouts and strange magic to go around".[1] Graeme Marsh ofmusicOMH commented: "It's astonishing how much ground gets covered onGood Luck, Seeker. Not every track is likely to resonate with every listener, but that's all part of the charm."[6]
Wyndham Wallace ofUncut describedGood Luck, Seeker as "an album of passion, wit and spirituality that, like its title, invites us not only to evolve, but to revel in our evolution".[8] Andy Fyfe ofMojo concluded:Good Luck, Seeker may not be the absolute best of Mike Scott's best, but it's well within touching distance."[7]
Hal Horowitz ofAmerican Songwriter praised the album's first half of "compact, tight and focused songs" which have a "surprisingly organic, classy and often invigorating effect". However, he felt the second half of the album's focus on spoken prose to be "an acquired taste" for "hardcore Scott lovers only".[4] Eamon Sweeney ofThe Irish Times described the first half as a "reasonably conventional hybrid of pop, jazz, folk and rock", but felt the second part will "test some listeners, who will hail it as genius or doggerel, depending on where you stand with the Waterboys in the first place".[5]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Soul Singer" | Mike Scott | 4:43 |
| 2. | "(You've Got To) Kiss a Frog or Two" | Scott, Paul Brown | 3:49 |
| 3. | "Low Down in the Broom" | Traditional | 3:05 |
| 4. | "Dennis Hopper" | Scott, Brown | 3:10 |
| 5. | "Freak Street" | Scott | 2:36 |
| 6. | "Sticky Fingers" | Scott, James Hallawell | 0:46 |
| 7. | "Why Should I Love You?" | Kate Bush | 5:44 |
| 8. | "The Golden Work" | Scott, Aongus Ralston,Charles Wiliams | 3:02 |
| 9. | "My Wanderings in the Weary Land" | Scott,Anthony Thistlethwaite,Jim Keltner | 6:48 |
| 10. | "Postcard from the Celtic Dreamtime" | Scott, Hallawell | 4:11 |
| 11. | "Good Luck, Seeker" | Scott,Adrian McNally,Rachel Unthank,Becky Unthank,Niopha Keegan,Chris Price, Sandy Smith,Dion Fortune | 2:46 |
| 12. | "Beauty in Repetition" | Scott,William James | 1:48 |
| 13. | "Everchanging" | Scott, Thistlethwaite, Keltner | 1:51 |
| 14. | "The Land of Sunset" | Scott, Peadar O'Riada | 4:28 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Soul Singer" (instrumental) | 4:40 |
| 2. | "(You've Got To) Kiss a Frog or Two" (instrumental) | 2:47 |
| 3. | "Low Down in the Broom" (guitar and vocal only) | 2:58 |
| 4. | "Dennis Hopper" (demo) | 1:53 |
| 5. | "Why Should I Love You?" (instrumental) | 5:44 |
| 6. | "My Wanderings in the Weary Land" (vocal only) | 2:37 |
| 7. | "Postcard from the Celtic Dreamtime" (instrumental) | 4:11 |
| 8. | "Beauty in Repetition" (instrumental) | 1:57 |
| 9. | "The Soul Singer" (demo) | 3:28 |
| 10. | "The Land of Sunset" (instrumental) | 4:25 |
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| Chart (2020) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[9] | 120 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[10] | 53 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[11] | 40 |
| Irish Albums (OCC)[12] | 14 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC)[13] | 4 |
| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[14] | 65 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[15] | 92 |
| UK Albums (OCC)[16] | 14 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC)[17] | 3 |
