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Beaten Awake's downtrodden, low-key indie rock has the whiff of something simultaneously rural and esoteric about it. Humble guitar figures are often worried out in a tentative, Gray Album-era Velvet Underground fashion. The voices have a bit of a creak to them, and the lyrics continually suggest a kind of congenital sadness and wonderment. (Idaho seems to be a clear predecessor, whether intentional or not.) Even when the band works itself up into lather, as on the pounding groove of "Goin' Nowhere," there is something touchingly morose pulling things down around the edges. Beaten Awake's Let's Get Simplified is true "indie rock" in the sense of having an utterly original and appealing aesthetic -- and with the full understanding that the term itself has come to mean something figurative and not literal (e.g., Modest Mouse remaining "indie rock" while signed to Capitol Records and topping the Billboard charts). The Ohio band hits high points here with the wistful, breezy, and pretty "Brownstone"; the soulful, dirge-like "Ghost Bought a Bicycle"; and the ominous, snaking "Tiger's Tale." This is an original, unusual, and melodic album, packed with wonderfully downplayed guitar accents and haunting lyrical intimations.
© Erik Hage /TiVo
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Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake, Composer, MainArtist, MusicPublisher
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
Albumbeschreibung
Beaten Awake's downtrodden, low-key indie rock has the whiff of something simultaneously rural and esoteric about it. Humble guitar figures are often worried out in a tentative, Gray Album-era Velvet Underground fashion. The voices have a bit of a creak to them, and the lyrics continually suggest a kind of congenital sadness and wonderment. (Idaho seems to be a clear predecessor, whether intentional or not.) Even when the band works itself up into lather, as on the pounding groove of "Goin' Nowhere," there is something touchingly morose pulling things down around the edges. Beaten Awake's Let's Get Simplified is true "indie rock" in the sense of having an utterly original and appealing aesthetic -- and with the full understanding that the term itself has come to mean something figurative and not literal (e.g., Modest Mouse remaining "indie rock" while signed to Capitol Records and topping the Billboard charts). The Ohio band hits high points here with the wistful, breezy, and pretty "Brownstone"; the soulful, dirge-like "Ghost Bought a Bicycle"; and the ominous, snaking "Tiger's Tale." This is an original, unusual, and melodic album, packed with wonderfully downplayed guitar accents and haunting lyrical intimations.
© Erik Hage /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:12
- Main artists: Beaten Awake
- Composer: Beaten Awake
- Label: Audio Eagle Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative en Indie
2006 Audio Eagle Records 2006 Beaten Awake
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