Wake the Sleeping Giant

Wake the Sleeping Giant
Studio album by Sputnik Monroe
Released December 6, 2005
(see release history)
Recorded Bear Creek Studios
Genre Progressive, Experimental, Indie
Length 43:25
Label The Orchard
Producer Ryan Hadlock
Sputnik Monroe chronology
Wake the Sleeping Giant
(2005)		 We're Doomed: The Great Depression Celebration Part 1
(2008)

Wake the Sleeping Giant is the first full length release by experimental, progressive, indie rock band Sputnik Monroe. Regionally distributed at Tower records and independently owned stores, the album was produced by Ryan Hadlock (Blonde Redhead, Stephen Malkmus) at Seattle’s Bear Creek Studios. The album captures Sputnik Monroe’s contemporary and creative sound.

"Sputnik’s Wake the Sleeping Giant is by far one of the best releases of 2005 from either a signed or unsigned band. The production, the instrumentation, the intensity, the sweeping melodies-unreal. I am honored to have heard your music before the rest of the world knows your name-and they will." - Skinnie Magazine

"Their debut album, Wake the Sleeping Giant, is a mammoth 10 song, 45 minute ride. It is sonically ambitious and melodicly endearing throughout. Where their long-lost brothers in The Mars Volta try to blow your mind with unintelligible soundscapes and opaque words, Sputnik Monroe draw you in with a sincere brand of working man’s progressive rock. They never bore you with 15 minute self indulgent drone fests nor do they stoop down to please all with cookie cutter flavors of the month. This band has a mission, and one listen to this bold new album should help them get there." – Decoy Music[1]

Track listing

  1. "Shamu Suicide"
  2. "Shouts At The Requiem"
  3. " Leaving America"
  4. "Wake The Sleeping Giant"
  5. "EEE Funk"
  6. "Tokyo Sky Surprise"
  7. "Knines"
  8. "Run For Cover"
  9. "Walk For Mankind"
  10. "Deadlegs"

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Roncaglione, Adam (November 26, 2005). "Sputnik Monroe". Decoy Music. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
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