''Noenemies'' is the fourth full-length studio album by alternative hip-hop band

Flobots Flobots is an experimental rap rock band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2005 by Jamie Laurie. The band's origins date back 5 years earlier to a similar project by Laurie. Flobots found mainstream success with their major label debut ''Fight ...

, released May 5, 2017.

Background

In 2015 it was announced that Flobots were working on a new music project called ''No Enemies,'' which will focus on issues such as climate change and immigration reform. The band raised funds via

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to record two albums. On November 8, 2016, Flobots released a new track, "Rattle the Cage". The song was premiered early than planned in response to the

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, with the band saying "Wounds are raw. The pain is real. We wanted to share something a little earlier than planned. This is a song for all of us". On January 20, 2017, they released another new song, the politically charged "Pray", released on the same day as the

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. The album was influenced by the works of

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, who was a mentor to the band. The group describes the album as "a body of protest songs that speak to the urgency of the current moment."

Track listing

;Note "Voices of the Dead" contains a sample of “Antioch” as performed by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers.

Personnel

;Flobots *Stephen Bracket aka Brer Rabbit - vocals * Jamie Laurie aka Jonny 5 - vocals *Kenny Ortiz - Drums, percussion ;Additional musicians *Gabriel Otto - bass, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar, backing vocals, production, arrangements *Mackenzie Gault - viola, backing vocals *Serafin Sanchez - saxophone, keyboards *Tad Lusk- guitar *Tom Hagerman - violin *Evan Orman - cello *Charlie Mertens - upright bass *Eva Holbrook, Maxwell McKee, Suzi Q, Sallie Baker, Chris Barker - Backing vocals *Spirit of Grace (Shamae Matthews, Tonicia London, Christin Grant, C. Larea Edwards) - Backing vocals *Denver Glenarm Singers, Colorado Children's CHorale's 303 Choir - backing vocals *Hugh Ragin, Tom Gershwin - trumpet *Adam Stone - keyboards *Dave Flomberg - trombone *Todd Divel - string and horn recording ;Production *Xandy Whitesel - recording, engineering *Jason Livermore - mixing, mastering Artwork *Josiah Werning - art direction, album art *Dustin Dahlman - album art

Charts

References

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