Live Laugh Love is the fifth studio album by the American rapper Earl Sweatshirt. With little prior announcement, it was released on August 22, 2025, through Tan Cressida Records and Warner Records. It follows his collaborative album with the Alchemist, Voir Dire (2023), and his fourth studio album Sick! (2022). Production was primarily handled by Theravada, with additional contributions by Black Noise, Child Actor, Navy Blue, and Earl himself.
Live Laugh Love was announced at a listening party on August 15, 2025. The event, which Sweatshirt did not himself attend, included live performances from an Earl Sweatshirt imposter and a DJ set by Black Noise that included songs from the album. The album released on all platforms one week later.
A music video for "Crisco" was released on August 28, 2025. A music video for "Exhaust" was released on September 4, 2025. A music video for "Well Done!" was released on September 18, 2025.
According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Live Laugh Love received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 84 out of 100 from ten critic scores. Clash called the album "impeccably detailed.. Live Laugh Live' is a rap Escher diagram, a Greek maze with MC as Minotaur; it extends EarlâÂÂs world, and invites you forward with every step".
In his review for Exclaim!, Wesley McLean referred to the album as "an undeniable odyssey of personal growth, so incredibly layered and deliberate that not a second feels wasted'" adding that the record is "oozing catharsis, sonically consuming and lyrically poignant". The Guardian said "the disorientating shifts and non-sequiturs feel like observing a dream someone else is having".
Credits adapted from Tidal.
Credits adapted from Tidal.