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| Released | October 23, 2012 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 39:40 | |||
| Label | Rhymesayers Entertainment | |||
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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]
Preorders of the album came complete with materials from anarchist collective Crimethinc. [5]
| 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]
| 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) |
| 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" |
| 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" |
| 3:11 |
| 10. | "Weird Friends (We Don't Even Live Here)" |
| 2:48 |
| 11. | "Piano Hits" (featuring Isaac Gale of Marijuana Deathsquads) | Cecil Otter | 3:12 |
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12. | "Oh, Ouch" (featuring Busdriver) | P.O.S | 3:20 |
| 13. | "Sick Pout" | Cecil Otter | 2:21 |
Credits adapted from liner notes. [15]
| 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 |
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