Heirs (album)

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Heirs
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Studio album by
Released4 May 2015 (2015-05-04)
Genre Post-rock
Instrumental rock
Math rock
Length43:18
Label Sargent House
And So I Watch You From Afar chronology
All Hail Bright Futures
(2013)
Heirs
(2015)
The Endless Shimmering
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 63/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
The Line of Best Fit(7/10) [2]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Drowned in Sound (6/10) [4]

Heirs is the fourth studio album by And So I Watch You From Afar. Released on 4 May 2015, [5] the album was made available to stream through the online music publication The Fader a week before its release, which revealed the track listing of the album. [6]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Run Home"04:33
2."These Secret Kings I Know"02:39
3."Wasps"02:40
4."Redesigned a Million Times"04:41
5."People Not Sleeping"03:51
6."Fucking Lifer"02:40
7."A Beacon, a Compass, an Anchor"06:17
8."Animal Ghosts"02:48
9."Heirs"07:29
10."Tryer, You"05:45
Total length:43:23

Personnel

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References

  1. "Metacritic Review". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  2. "Heirs by And So I Watch You From Afar". The Line of Best Fit. 30 April 2015.
  3. Deming, Mark. "Allmusic Review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. Bland, Benjamin. "Drowned in Sound Review". DrownedInSound.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  5. "Heirs Bio 2015".
  6. "Hear The Intense New Album From And So I Watch You From Afar". The Fader . 27 April 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2015.