Who We Touch

Who We Touch is the eleventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Charlatans, released on 6 September 2010.^[1] It was released in a standard version and a two disc version. The second CD contained early demos, alternate mixes of tracks from the standard album, and some out-takes that didn't make it on to the album. The album charted at #21 in the UK album charts. The album was later released digitally.^[2]

Who We Touch
Studio album by The Charlatans
Released	6 September 2010
Recorded	March – June 2010
Studio	Britannia Row and State of the Ark, London
Genre	Indie rock
Length	56:36
Label	Cooking Vinyl
Producer	Martin "Youth" Glover
The Charlatans chronology
You Cross My Path (2008) Who We Touch (2010) Modern Nature (2015)
Singles from Who We Touch
"Love Is Ending" Released: 2 August 2010 "My Foolish Pride" Released: 20 September 2010 "Your Pure Soul" Released: 29 November 2010

This is the Charlatans' final studio album to feature drummer Jon Brookes, who was absent from the band's tour supporting the album due to getting treatment for a brain tumour. He was replaced on the tour by The Verve drummer Peter Salisbury; Brookes subsequently died in 2013.

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	6.3/10[3]
Metacritic	71/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
DIY	[6]
Drowned in Sound	7/10[7]
musicOMH	[8]
NME	[9]
PopMatters	7/10[10]
Record Collector	[11]
The Skinny	[12]
Slant Magazine	[13]
Time Out Abu Dhabi	4/5[14]

Who We Touch was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 71, based on 12 reviews.^[4] AnyDecentMusic? gave it a score of 6.3, based on 15 reviews.^[3]

Track listing

All songs written by The Charlatans except "I Sing the Body Eclectic", written by The Charlatans and Penny Rimbaud.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love Is Ending"	3:48
2.	"My Foolish Pride"	4:09
3.	"Your Pure Soul"	5:39
4.	"Smash the System"	3:34
5.	"Intimacy"	5:12
6.	"Sincerity"	6:28
7.	"Trust in Desire"	5:09
8.	"When I Wonder"	3:39
9.	"Oh!"	5:56
10.	"You Can Swim" (Includes 2 hidden tracks, "On the Threshold" and "I Sing the Body Eclectic")	13:02

Deluxe Edition

Disc One

Same as 10-track version

Disc Two (bonus disc)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love Is Ending" (Early Version)	3:20
2.	"Intimacy" (Early Version)	3:53
3.	"Smash the System" (Early Version)	3:15
4.	"These Things" (Studio Out-take)	3:10
5.	"Your Pure Soul" (Early Version)	5:01
6.	"Sincerity" (Early Instrumental Version)	3:54
7.	"Trust in Desire" (Alternate Take)	5:11
8.	"My Foolish Pride" (Early Version)	4:10
9.	"Lips That Would Kiss" (Early Version)	4:49
10.	"Who We Touch We Don't Mind" (Studio Out-take)	4:53
11.	"Don't Know Where or When" (Studio Out-take)	5:13
12.	"Intimacy" (Alternate Mix)	5:16
13.	"Throbbing Genesis" (Studio Out-take)	2:31

Personnel

The Charlatans

• Tim Burgess – lead vocals, mixing
• Mark Collins – guitars
• Martin Blunt – bass guitar
• Jon Brookes – drums
• Tony Rogers – keyboards, backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Jay Shulman – viola
• Jonathon Talbott – violin
• Penny Rimbaud – poem, vocals on "I Sing the Body Eclectic"

Production

• Martin "Youth" Glover – production
• Tim Bran, Clive Goddard – engineering
• Cameron Jenkins, Henry Hirsch – mixing
• Chris Theis – Pro Tools engineer (assisted by Bram Tobey)
• Nigel Walton – mastering
• Jazz Summers, Tim Parry – management
• Gee Vaucher – cover art and design
• Tom Sheehan – band photo