Editing Breathe (Midnight Oil album) (section)

==Reception==
{{Album reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Erlewine"/>
| rev2 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev2Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Moon"/>
}}
''Breathe'' peaked at No.&nbsp;3 on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Albums Chart]] and appeared in the top&nbsp;40 on the [[Recording Industry Association of New Zealand|New Zealand]] and [[Switzerland|Swiss]] Albums Charts. In Australia it was certified gold for shipment of 35,000 copies by ARIA. [[AllMusic]]'s reviewer, [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]], described it as having "a more direct sound while keeping the anthemic melodicism ... less ambitious than its predecessor, yet also more forceful".<ref name="Erlewine">{{cite web | url = {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r241496|pure_url=yes}} | title = ''Breathe'' – Midnight Oil | last = Erlewine | first = Stephen Thomas | author-link = Stephen Thomas Erlewine | publisher = [[AllMusic]] | access-date = 13 May 2013 }}</ref> According to Australian musicologist, [[Ian McFarlane]], it had a loose, raw style with almost a low-key sound.<ref name="McFarlane"/> ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s Tom Moon compared it to earlier albums which "were filled with wide-screen screeds, the lectures on ''Breathe'' are offset by evocative mood pieces ... In fusing the hurtling momentum of punk with the righteousness of old-timey hymns, the Oils have arrived at a potent music that uplifts as it agitates".<ref name="Moon">{{cite magazine | url =  https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/midnightoil/albums/album/154066/review/5945984/breathe | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080725135841/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/midnightoil/albums/album/154066/review/5945984/breathe | title = Midnight Oil: ''Breathe'' | last = Moon | first = Tom | magazine = [[Rolling Stone]] | issue = 748 | date = 6 November 1996 | archive-date = 25 July 2008 | url-status =  dead | access-date = 13 May 2013 }}</ref>