We're All Gonna Die (Dawes album)

We're All Gonna Die
Studio album by Dawes
Released	September 16, 2016
Genre	Folk rock, pop rock
Length	46:29
Label	HUB
Producer	Blake Mills
Dawes chronology
All Your Favorite Bands (2015)All Your Favorite Bands2015 We're All Gonna Die (2016)
Singles from We're All Gonna Die
"When the Tequila Runs Out" Released: August 17, 2016 "We're All Gonna Die" Released: September 7, 2016

We're All Gonna Die is the fifth studio album by American folk rock band Dawes. It was announced on August 17, 2016, with the release of the lead single, "When the Tequila Runs Out". The album was released on September 16, 2016.^[1] It was produced by former bandmate (when they performed as Simon Dawes), Blake Mills.^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
American Songwriter	[4]
Rolling Stone	[5]
AllMusic	[6]
PopMatters	[7]
Paste Magazine	7.0/10[8]

We're All Gonna Die received moderate praise upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 77, indicating "generally favorable" reviews, based on 6 critics.

Accolades

Track listing

1. "One of Us" (Taylor Goldsmith, Blake Mills) – 4:54
2. "We're All Gonna Die" (Goldsmith) – 5:06
3. "Roll with the Punches" (Goldsmith, Mills) – 4:25
4. "Picture of a Man" (Goldsmith, Jason Boesel) – 4:21
5. "Less than Five Miles Away" (Goldsmith, Mills) – 4:58
6. "Roll Tide" (Boesel, Mills) – 5:30
7. "When the Tequila Runs Out" (Goldsmith, Boesel, Mills) – 4:46
8. "For No Good Reason" (Goldsmith, Mills) – 4:22
9. "Quitter" (Goldsmith, Mills) – 3:51
10. "As If By Design" (Goldsmith) – 4:16

Personnel

Dawes

• Taylor Goldsmith – vocals, guitars, pianet (2), slide guitar (7)
• Griffin Goldsmith – drums, vocals, percussion (3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9), lead vocals (6)
• Wylie Gelber – bass, Kee bass (8)
• Lee Pardini – piano (2, 5, 6, 8, 10), Acetone (2, 5, 7, 8), pianet (3, 5, 7), Juno (4, 8), clavinet (1, 9), organ (4), vocals

Additional Musicians

• Blake Mills – guitars (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9), vocals (2, 6, 7, 8, 9), drum programming (4), bass (5), glockenspiel (7), slide guitar (8), Korg MS-20 (9)
• Rob Moose – strings (2, 6, 10)
• Jim James – vocals (2, 7)
• Mandy Moore – vocals (4)
• Lucius (Jess Wolf & Holly Laessig) – vocals (4)
• Jim Keltner – MPC (7)
• Brittany Howard – vocals (7)
• Will Oldham – vocals (7)
• Nate Walcott – trumpet (10)
• Jim James appears courtesy of Capitol Music Group
• Brittany Howard appears courtesy of ATO Records

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