We Are Sent Here by History
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| We Are Sent Here by History | ||||
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| Studio album by Shabaka and the Ancestors | ||||
| Released | 13 March 2020 | |||
| Length | 63:58 | |||
| Label | Impulse! | |||
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We Are Sent Here by History is a studio album by British-Barbadian musician Shabaka Hutchings, under his band Shabaka and the Ancestors. It was released on 13 March 2020 under Impulse! Records.[1][2]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 8/10[3] |
| Metacritic | 84/100[4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| The Guardian |  [6] |
| Pitchfork | 8/10[7] |
| The Skinny | [8] |
We Are Sent Here by History was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 84, based on 11 reviews.[4]
As Rob Shepherd noted for PostGenre: "As much as history may have sent [the band] to this moment in time, one senses future generations will themselves be looking back to this music in forging their own artistic paths."[9]
