The Earth Pressed Flat

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Earth Pressed Flat

| type = Album

| artist = 10,000 Maniacs

| cover = Theearthpressedflat.jpg

| alt =

| released = 20 April 1999

| genre = Rock

| length = 55:38

| label = Bar/None Records

| producer = Armand John Petri

| prev_title = Love Among the Ruins

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings of 10,000 Maniacs

| next_year = 2004

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r403235|pure_url=yes}} link]

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2Score = C− [https://web.archive.org/web/20110623112129/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,273457,00.html link]

| rev3 = The Phoenix

| rev3Score = {{rating|3|4}} [https://archive.today/20130209131915/http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/archive/music/99/05/28/OTR/10_000_MANIACS.html link]

| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev4Score = {{rating|1.5|5}} {{cite book| last = Brackett | first = Nathan |author2=Christian Hoard | title = The Rolling Stone Album Guide | publisher = Simon and Schuster | year = 2004 | location = New York City, New York | page = [https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/807 807] | isbn = 0-7432-0169-8 | url = https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac| url-access = registration | quote = rolling stone 10,000 maniacs album guide. }}

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The Earth Pressed Flat is the seventh album by 10,000 Maniacs, released in 1999. The album contains nine songs that had been written for, but not used in, the band's previous album, Love Among the Ruins: "The Earth Pressed Flat", "Once a City", "On & On (Mersey Song)", "Somebody's Heaven", "Cabaret", "Beyond the Blue", "Smallest Step", "Time Turns" and "Hidden in My Heart". "Beyond the Blue" and "Time Turns" had been released on the single "More Than This", but were re-recorded for this album.

All tracks are credited to 10,000 Maniacs as a band for royalty purposes, though the lyricists of the songs received additional credit. Dennis Drew wrote "Ellen", "Glow", "Smallest Step" and "Rainbows". John Lombardo wrote "The Earth Pressed Flat", "Once a City", "On & On (Mersey Song)", "Beyond the Blue" and "Time Turns". Lombardo and Drew shared writing credit on "Hidden in My Heart". Lombardo, Mary Ramsey and Rob Buck shared writing credit on "Somebody's Heaven".