We Know About the Need

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We Know About the Need
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 23, 2007 (2007-01-23)
Genre Post-rock
Length42:49
Label Anticon
Producer Bracken
Bracken chronology
We Know About the Need
(2007)
Exist Resist
(2014)
Singles from We Know About the Need
  1. "Heathens"
    Released: November 14, 2006
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Cokemahineglow65% [3]
Dusted Magazinemixed [4]
Pitchfork Media 7.4/10 [5]
Stylus Magazine B− [6]
XLR8R 7/10 [7]

We Know About the Need is the first studio album by English post-rock band Bracken. It was released on Anticon in 2007.

Contents

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, We Know About the Need received an average score of 72% based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Marisa Brown of AllMusic said, "Bracken makes thoughtful, reflective music, like Brian Eno, or even fellow anticon labelmates Alias or cLOUDDEAD, music that refuses to sit entirely still, that attempts to convey the broad range of human emotion in the details of its composition, and, in the end, succeeds." [2]

In December 2007, American webzine Somewhere Cold ranked We Know About the Need No. 7 on their 2007 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame. [8]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Of Athroll Slains"3:54
2."Heathens"4:19
3."(Int)"0:06
4."Fight or Flight"6:15
5."Safe Safe Safe"4:30
6."Music for Adverts"1:03
7."Evil Teeth"6:30
8."Four Thousand Style"5:39
9."La Monte Lament"0:50
10."Many Horses"2:32
11."Back on the Calder Line"7:17

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