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
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| 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
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Category:Albums produced by Chris Vrenna