Beneath the Watchful Eyes
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{{Infobox album|
| name = Beneath the Watchful Eyes
| type = Album
| artist = Arthur Loves Plastic
| cover = Arthur Loves Plastic - Beneath the Watchful Eyes.jpg
| alt =
| released = 31 March 2007
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Electronica
| length = 45:40
| label = Machine Heart Music
| producer = Bev Stanton
| chronology = Arthur Loves Plastic album
| prev_title = Troubled
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = Brief Episodes of Joy
| next_year = 2008
}}
{{Music ratings
| state = plain
| rev1 = Church of Girl
| rev2 = Collected Sounds
| rev3 = Dead Earnest
| rev4 = Smother Magazine
}}
Beneath the Watchful Eyes is the fifteenth album from Arthur Loves Plastic, and was released in 2007.
Awards
Beneath the Watchful Eyes won the 2007 Wammie for the Best Recording in the Electronica Category.[http://www.wamadc.com/wama/wammies/wbal22.htm The 2007 Wammies (Washington Area Music Awards)]. In the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards, the track "Women Alone" was nominated in the Techno Song category.[http://www.jpfolks.com/09songnoms.html 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards Song Nominees].
Release notes
"Mischievous techno-inspired electronica."
Track listing
{{track listing
| headline =
| total_length = 45:40
| all_writing = Bev Stanton
| title1 = Rainbow Bridge
| length1 = 3:23
| title2 = Dark Side
| length2 = 3:00
| title3 = Free
| length3 = 2:49
| title4 = We Will Remember
| length4 = 2:58
| title5 = Hollow
| length5 = 3:56
| title6 = Empty PhilHarmonic
| length6 = 2:37
| title7 = The Grind
| length7 = 1:55
| title8 = If You Could See Me Now
| length8 = 3:08
| title9 = Afterglow
| length9 = 3:06
| title10 = I'll Be There
| length10 = 3:17
| title11 = Despair
| length11 = 2:09
| title12 = Women Alone
| length12 = 2:48
| title13 = Let's Do It!
| length13 = 2:44
| title14 = Misfortune
| length14 = 3:00
| title15 = The Puritans
| length15 = 4:50
}}
Personnel
- Produced by Bev Stanton in the Flamingo Room, Silver Spring, MD.
= 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
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