We Don't Even Live Here

We Don't Even Live Here
Studio album by P.O.S
Released	October 23, 2012 (2012-10-23)
Genre	Hip-hop
Length	39:40
Label	Rhymesayers Entertainment
Producer	P.O.S Lazerbeak Andrew Dawson [1] Cecil Otter Patric Russell Ryan Olson Boys Noize Housemeister
P.O.S chronology
Never Better (2009) We Don't Even Live Here (2012) Chill, Dummy (2017)

We Don't Even Live Here is the fourth solo studio album by American rapper P.O.S. ^[2] It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment on October 23, 2012. ^[3] It peaked at number 47 on the Billboard 200 chart. ^[4]

Release

Preorders of the album came complete with materials from anarchist collective Crimethinc. ^[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100 [6]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Alarm	favorable [7]
AllMusic	[8]
The A.V. Club	A− [9]
BBC	favorable [10]
Pitchfork	5.7/10 [11]
XXL	L [12]
The Current	favorable [13]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". ^[6]

Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club gave the album a grade of A−, writing, "We Don't Even Live Here is extraordinarily accessible and somehow even agreeable in its controlled rage, the soundtrack to an anarchic end-of-the-world party that listeners can only hope they’re outsider enough to attend." ^[9] David Jeffries of AllMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, describing it as "a literate, sharp blast of revolution with an anarchist slant." ^[8]

ABC News placed it at number 24 on the "50 Best Albums of 2012" list. ^[14]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Bumper"	P.O.S	2:59
2.	"Fuck Your Stuff"	Lazerbeak	3:53
3.	"How We Land" (featuring Justin Vernon of Bon Iver)	Andrew Dawson P.O.S	4:00
4.	"Wanted Wasted" (featuring Astronautalis)	Cecil Otter	4:20
5.	"They Can't Come" (featuring Sims)	Lazerbeak	4:01
6.	"Lockpicks, Knives, Bricks and Bats"	Lazerbeak Andrew Dawson	3:48
7.	"Fire in the Hole / Arrow to the Action"	Lazerbeak	3:48
8.	"Get Down" (featuring Mike Mictlan)	Patrick Russel	3:40
9.	"All of It"	Ryan Olson 2% Muck	3:11
10.	"Weird Friends (We Don't Even Live Here)"	Boys Noize Housemeister	2:48
11.	"Piano Hits" (featuring Isaac Gale of Marijuana Deathsquads)	Cecil Otter	3:12

Deluxe edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
12.	"Oh, Ouch" (featuring Busdriver)	P.O.S	3:20
13.	"Sick Pout"	Cecil Otter	2:21

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. ^[15]

• P.O.S – vocals, production (1, 3, 12), photography
• Ben Ivascu – drums (1, 2, 3, 7, 11)
• Lazerbeak – production (2, 5, 6, 7)
• Chris "Sick Boy" Lee – drums (2, 6, 7, 11)
• Andrew Dawson – production (3, 6), recording, mixing
• Justin Vernon – vocals (3)
• Astronautalis – vocals (3, 4), photography
• Justin Pierre – vocals (3, 6)
• Jessy Greene – violin (4)
• Cecil Otter – production (4, 11, 13)
• Sims – vocals (5)
• Patric Russel – production (8)
• Mike Mictlan – vocals (8)
• Ryan Olson – production (9)
• 2% Muck – tweak (9)
• Boys Noize – production (10)
• Housemeister – production (10)
• Manchita – vocals (10)
• Isaac Gale – vocals (11)
• Busdriver – vocals (12)
• Max Plisskin – mixing assistance
• Chris Athens – mastering
• Eric Timothy Carlson – artwork, design
• Isaak Gale – photography
• Kelly Loverud – photography
• Weather Grider – photography
• John Grider – photography
• J. Cook – project coordination
• S. Rossi – project coordination
• S. Alexander – executive production
• S. Daley – executive production
• B. Sayers – executive production

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Billboard 200 [4]	47
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [16]	9
US Top Rap Albums (Billboard) [17]	8
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [18]	9
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [19]	8

References

1. Paine, Jake (September 15, 2012). "P.O.S. Announces "We Don't Even Live Here" Fall Tour Dates With Bad Rabbits". HipHopDX .
2. Fischer, Reed (August 1, 2012). "Wanna be in the P.O.S. "Get Down" music video?". City Pages .
3. Coplan, Chris (August 15, 2012). "P.O.S. announces new album: We Don't Even Live Here". Consequence of Sound .
4. "POS Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
5. Traven, B. (October 22, 2012). "Collaboration with P.O.S." Crimethinc.
6. "We Don't Even Live Here by P.O.S". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved November 5, 2015.
7. Morrow, Scott (October 25, 2012). "Review: P.O.S's We Don't Even Live Here". Alarm.
8. Jeffries, David. "We Don't Even Live Here - P.O.S". AllMusic . Retrieved March 31, 2016.
9. Koski, Genevieve (October 23, 2012). "P.O.S.: We Don't Even Live Here". The A.V. Club . Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
10. Pattison, Louis (2012). "P.O.S - We Don't Even Live Here - Review". BBC .
11. Cohen, Ian (November 20, 2012). "P.O.S.: We Don't Even Live Here". Pitchfork .
12. Diep, Eric (October 29, 2012). "P.O.S, We Don't Even Live Here". XXL .
13. Swensson, Andrea (October 22, 2012). "Album Review: P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here". 89.3 The Current . Minnesota Public Radio.
14. Raible, Allan (December 22, 2012). "The Year in Review: The 50 Best Albums of 2012". ABC News . Retrieved October 31, 2019.
15. We Don't Even Live Here (booklet). P.O.S. Minneapolis: Rhymesayers Entertainment. 2012. p. 6. RSE0158-2.
16. "POS Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
17. "POS Chart History (Top Rap Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
18. "POS Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
19. "POS Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 31, 2019.

External links

• We Don't Even Live Here at Discogs (list of releases)
• We Don't Even Live Here at Rhymesayers Entertainment