2 a.m. Wakeup Call
| 2 A.M. Wakeup Call | ||||
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| Released | April 20, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock Industrial rock Electronica Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 46:39 | |||
| Label | Waxploitation | |||
| Producer | Chris Vrenna, Clint Walsh | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
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.[2]
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 Tweaker 2 Remix contest.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Ruby" (featuring Will Oldham) | 3:43 |
| 2. | "Cauterized" | 3:06 |
| 3. | "Worse Than Yesterday" (featuring Jonathan Bates of mellowdrone) | 4:18 |
| 4. | "Truth Is" (featuring Robert Smith of The Cure) | 4:03 |
| 5. | "Remorseless" | 2:37 |
| 6. | "Pure Genius" (featuring David Sylvian) | 3:52 |
| 7. | "It's Still Happening" (featuring Hamilton Leithauser) | 3:17 |
| 8. | "2 a.m." | 3:15 |
| 9. | "Movement of Fear" | 3:40 |
| 10. | "Sleepwalking Away" (featuring Nick Young) | 3:57 |
| 11. | "The House I Grew Up In" | 4:04 |
| 12. | "Crude Sunlight" (featuring Jennifer Charles) | 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
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r681679
- ^ "Chris Vrenna interviewed about the Tweaker album 2 A.M. Wakeup Call". chaoscontrol.com. Retrieved November 11, 2020.