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Beneath the Watchful Eyes

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Beneath the Watchful Eyes
Studio album by
Released31 March 2007
GenreElectronica
Length45:40
LabelMachine Heart Music
ProducerBev Stanton
Arthur Loves Plastic album chronology
Troubled
(2006)
Beneath the Watchful Eyes
(2007)
Brief Episodes of Joy
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Church of Girlfavorable [1]
Collected Soundsfavorable [2]
Dead Earnestfavorable [3]
Smother Magazinefavorable [4]

Beneath the Watchful Eyes is the fifteenth album from Arthur Loves Plastic, and was released in 2007.[5]

Awards

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Beneath the Watchful Eyes won the 2007 Wammie for the Best Recording in the Electronica Category.[6] In the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards, the track "Women Alone" was nominated in the Techno Song category.[7]

Release notes

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"Mischievous techno-inspired electronica."

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Bev Stanton

No.TitleLength
1."Rainbow Bridge"3:23
2."Dark Side"3:00
3."Free"2:49
4."We Will Remember"2:58
5."Hollow"3:56
6."Empty PhilHarmonic"2:37
7."The Grind"1:55
8."If You Could See Me Now"3:08
9."Afterglow"3:06
10."I'll Be There"3:17
11."Despair"2:09
12."Women Alone"2:48
13."Let's Do It!"2:44
14."Misfortune"3:00
15."The Puritans"4:50
Total length:45:40

Personnel

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Additional musicians

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  • Heavy Lids - Featuring (1, 15)
  • Lisa Moscatiello - Vocals (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11)
  • Virus Factory - Loops (3) *
  • Lisa Moscatiello - Guitar (5, 8)
  • Mental Anguish - Loops (7, 13) *
  • Cystem - Guitar Loop (9, 14) *
  • Eric Wenberg - Guitar (11)
  • DJ Get Yo Fat On - Loops (12, 13) *
  • International Garbageman - Loops (12) *
  • Heuristics Inc. - Loops (13) *
  • Robbie Magruder - Drums (13)

* Remixed for The Tapegerm Collective

Samples

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  • Suki Taylor - Spoken Word (5)
  • Sample from "'Tis the Last Rose of Summer" from American Music for Two Guitarists by Phil Mathieu and George Cavallaro (6)
  • Dialogue from Nights of Love in Lesbos, a reading of The Songs of Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs (12)
  • Narration from Jason Fortuny's "Craigslist Experiment" (13)
  • Dialogue from the 1968 film The Killing of Sister George (14)

Credits

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  • Eli Wadley - Cover photo

References

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  1. ^ "Review: Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Church of Girl. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
  2. ^ Stjärnell, Anna Maria. "Review: Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Collected Sounds. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  3. ^ Garibaldi, Andy. "Review: Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Dead Earnest. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  4. ^ Shawn, Jason. "Review: Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Smother Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
  5. ^ "Arthur Loves Plastic - Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  6. ^ The 2007 Wammies (Washington Area Music Awards).
  7. ^ 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards Song Nominees.