Beneath the Watchful Eyes

Beneath the Watchful Eyes
Studio album by Arthur Loves Plastic
Released 31 March 2007
Genre Electronica
Length 45:40
Label Machine Heart Music
Producer Bev 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

Beneath the Watchful Eyes won the 2007 Wammie for 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

"Mischievous techno-inspired electronica."

Track listing

All tracks 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

Additional musicians

  • 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

  • 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

  • Eli Wadley - Cover photo

References

  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.
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