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Beaten Awake
Beaten Awake are a band born of Kent, Ohio. Beaten Awake are seasoned members of the vibrant Kent art and music scene. Joel McAdams played multiple instruments in such bands as Harriet the Spy, Man I fell in Love With, and "New" Terror Class. Jon Finley and Ryan Brannon both played in Party of Helicopters (Finley drums and Brannon bass). They were reunited in a way through common friends, when all three were working at the Zephyr Pub in Kent.
In this new band Ryan has moved from bass to drums while Jon has traded in his drum kit for guitars and keys. It is difficult to make the association to Party of Helicopters, as it isn't apparent in their sound. There's an contiguous feel of fun in Beaten Awake's music. It's a commingle of pop esthesia and a love of melody spirited with precocious, unique aural landscapes all absorbed in a moony pop package. At times it reminds you of Lou Barlow and his bands like Sebadoh or Folk Implosion.
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Artist Biography - Beaten Awake
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Beaten Awake made no deliberate attempt to make it this far. The jam sessions at drummer Ryan Brannon's apartment led to instinctive gigs at The Zephyr Pub, a record deal with Audio Eagle, and an opening spot on The Black Keys west coast tour. Beaten Awake, musically features two well-defined vocalists and songwriters. The songs of Joel McAdams elicit the shirker rock of Stephen Malkmus or Lou Barlow, while Jon Finley sings his country cooked rock songs as if he was raised on whiskey and winstons. If the boys of Beaten Awake weren't such good friends, McAdams and Finley, were contending a contest for your attraction on Let's Get Simplified. The album opening track starts with Finley's "Browns Town," a back porch thrummer that softly creeks and extends along with its subdued guitar lines and ethereal drumming. Then McAdams with "It's A Bubble Bath of Sharks," a magical song of lost love, along with a accumulation of guitars and the bass guitar apparently doing their own thing and jutting together at the same time. When Finley ups the ante with the chunky psychotropic blow out of "Broken Fang" and follows it up with the pleasing stomper, "Goin Nowhere," McAdams is ready to answer with his best Barlow on the sad ballad "All Up All Close" and the quick, offbeat, and pleasing "Endless Boo."
Beaten Awake may not have expected all the attention they have received, when they started those first jam sessions, but by being accomplished musicians and virtuoso songwriters, they have proved to make themselves progressively arduous to dismiss.
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