We Are the Tide

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We Are the Tide
Blind Pilot (We Are the Tide) album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 13, 2011 (2011-09-13)
Genre Indie rock
Length38:05
Label Expunged
Producer Blind Pilot
Blind Pilot chronology
3 Rounds and a Sound
(2008)
We Are the Tide
(2011)
And Then Like Lions

We Are the Tide is the second studio album from the Portland, Oregon indie group Blind Pilot. The album was released on September 13, 2011. [1]

Portland, Oregon city in Oregon, USA

Portland, officially the City of Portland, is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County. It is a major port in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. As of 2018, Portland had an estimated population of 653,115, making it the 25th most populated city in the United States, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest after Seattle. Approximately 2.4 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. Its combined statistical area (CSA) ranks 19th-largest with a population of around 3.2 million. Approximately 60% of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.

Oregon state of the United States of America

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. The parallel 42° north delineates the southern boundary with California and Nevada.

Blind Pilot

Blind Pilot is an American indie folk band based in Portland, Oregon, United States. They have released three albums and one EP since 2008.

Contents

Reception

Andrew Leahey of AllMusic gave the album positive review, rating it 4.5 out of 5. He judge the tracks in the album "near faultless", setting "a new benchmark in the Oregon/Washington folk-pop revival." [1]

AllMusic Online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web. As of 2015, AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne.

The album debuted at No. 56 on Billboard 200, [2] No. 19 on Top Rock Albums, [3] and No. 2 on Folk Albums, [4] selling around 8,000 in the first week. The album has sold 65,000 copies in the United States as of July 2016. [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Half Moon"3:28
2."Always"2:26
3."Keep You Right"3:35
4."We Are the Tide"3:17
5."The Colored Night"3:55
6."I Know"3:52
7."White Apple"3:56
8."Just One"4:29
9."Get It Out"3:25
10."New York"5:39

[6]

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [7] 56
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard) [8] 10
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [9] 2
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [10] 14
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [11] 19
US Vinyl Albums (Billboard) [12] 11

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References

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