''We Know About the Need'' is the first studio album by English post-rock band

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. It was released on

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in 2007.

Reception

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, 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". Marisa Brown of

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said, "Bracken makes thoughtful, reflective music, like

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, or even fellow anticon labelmates Alias or

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, 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." In December 2007, American

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'' Somewhere Cold'' ranked ''We Know About the Need'' No. 7 on their ''2007 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame''.

Track listing

References

External links

* {{Authority control Anticon albums 2007 debut albums Bracken (band) albums