Let's Get Simplified, by Beaten Awake

Let's Get Simplified

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1.	Browns Town 02:30	buy track
2.	It's a Bubble Bath of Sharks!!! 02:09	buy track
3.	Ghost Bought a Bicycle 02:48	buy track
4.	Broken Fang 02:39	buy track
5.	Goin' Nowhere 02:44	buy track
6.	All Up All Close 03:02	buy track
7.	A&E 04:01	buy track
8.	The Tiger's Tale 03:26	buy track
9.	Boat Shoes 03:02	buy track
10.	Tree of Woe 05:31	buy track
11.	Endless Boo 02:11	buy track
12.	Secular Ankh 03:09	buy track

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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 of Allmusic.com

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released May 15, 2007

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