| Good Luck, Seeker | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | the Waterboys |
| Cover: | The Waterboys Good Luck Seeker 2020 album cover.jpg |
| Released: | 21 August 2020 |
| Length: | 48:40 |
| Label: | Cooking Vinyl |
| Producer: | Puck Fingers, Brother Paul |
| Prev Title: | Where the Action Is |
| Prev Year: | 2019 |
| Next Title: | All Souls Hill |
| Next Year: | 2022 |
Good Luck, Seeker is the fourteenth studio album by the Waterboys, which was released by Cooking 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]
Timothy Monger of AllMusic described Good 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 of musicOMH commented: "It's astonishing how much ground gets covered on Good Luck, Seeker. Not every track is likely to resonate with every listener, but that's all part of the charm."
Wyndham Wallace of Uncut described Good 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".[4] Andy Fyfe of Mojo concluded: Good Luck, Seeker may not be the absolute best of Mike Scott's best, but it's well within touching distance."
Hal Horowitz of American 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". Eamon Sweeney of The 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".
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