2 a.m. Wakeup Call

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{{Infobox album|

| name = 2 A.M. Wakeup Call

| type = Album

| artist = Tweaker

| cover = 2 a.m. Wakeup Call (2004 Tweaker album).jpg

| alt =

| released = April 20, 2004

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Alternative rock
Industrial rock
Electronica
Progressive rock

| length = 46:39

| label = Waxploitation

| producer = Chris Vrenna, Clint Walsh

| prev_title = The Attraction to All Things Uncertain

| prev_year = 2001

| next_title = Call The Time Eternity

| next_year = 2012

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r681679|pure_url=yes}}

}}

2 A.M. Wakeup Call is the second album from the band Tweaker. Opposed to The Attraction to All Things Uncertain, this album captures emotional, human performances and instrumentation - notably live drums, acoustic guitar, piano and glockenspiels. It's a nighttime record about dreams, nightmares, and insomnia—things that keep us up at night.

Vrenna has stated in interviews that the title was inspired by his wife's insomnia. For a period of about a month she would wake up at 2am every single night no matter when they went to bed.{{cite web|url=https://chaoscontrol.com/tweaker/|title=Chris Vrenna interviewed about the Tweaker album 2 A.M. Wakeup Call|publisher=chaoscontrol.com|accessdate=November 11, 2020}}

2 a.m. Wakeup Call was subsequently released in 5.1 Surround Sound.

The track "It's Still Happening" was offered to the ACIDplanet community for remixing as a part of the [http://www.acidplanet.com/contests/tweaker2/ Tweaker 2 Remix contest].

Track listing

{{track listing

| title1 = Ruby

| note1 = featuring Will Oldham

| length1 = 3:43

| title2 = Cauterized

| length2 = 3:06

| title3 = Worse Than Yesterday

| note3 = featuring Jonathan Bates of mellowdrone

| length3 = 4:18

| title4 = Truth Is

| note4 = featuring Robert Smith of The Cure

| length4 = 4:03

| title5 = Remorseless

| length5 = 2:37

| title6 = Pure Genius

| note6 = featuring David Sylvian

| length6 = 3:52

| title7 = It's Still Happening

| note7 = featuring Hamilton Leithauser

| length7 = 3:17

| title8 = 2 a.m.

| length8 = 3:15

| title9 = Movement of Fear

| length9 = 3:40

| title10 = Sleepwalking Away

| note10 = featuring Nick Young

| length10 = 3:57

| title11 = The House I Grew Up In

| length11 = 4:04

| title12 = Crude Sunlight

| note12 = featuring Jennifer Charles

| length12 = 6:52

}}

Personnel

  • Chris Vrenna - producer, recording engineer, mixing engineer
  • Clint Walsh - producer
  • Jeff Antebi - executive producer
  • Johnny Marr - guitar on track 11
  • Paul Ill - bass on track 3; fretless bass on track 12
  • Rich Mouser - recorded additional live drums on tracks 1 and 10
  • Ken Lee - mastering engineer

References