| We Are Sent Here by History | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Shabaka and the Ancestors |
| Cover: | We Are Sent Here by History.jpg |
| Alt: | A drawing of a nude Black person with pitch black skin that resembles rubber, posed in front of a series of white concentric circles over a white-specked black background. |
| Length: | 63:58 |
| Label: | Impulse! |
| Prev Title: | Wisdom of Elders |
| Prev Year: | 2016 |
| Next Title: | Afrikan Culture |
| Next Year: | 2022 |
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]
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.
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."[3]