Anhedonia (The Graduate album)

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Anhedonia
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Studio album by The Graduate
Released April 10, 2007 (2007-04-10)
Genre Indie Rock
Length41:57
Label Icon MES
Producer Brian McTernan
The Graduate chronology
Horror Show EP
(2006)
Anhedonia
(2007)
Only Every Time
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Anhedonia is the debut album by American rock band The Graduate. The tracks "Sit & Sink" and "Justified" were featured on their previous Horror Show EP and were re-recorded for this album. The album title is a reference to Anhedonia, the psychological condition of being unable to feel joy or excitement from normally pleasurable acts, such as social or sexual interactions.

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The Graduate (band)

The Graduate was an American indie/emo band from Springfield, Illinois.

Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure. While earlier definitions of anhedonia emphasized the inability to experience pleasure, anhedonia is used by researchers to refer to reduced motivation, reduced anticipatory pleasure (wanting), reduced consummatory pleasure (liking), and deficits in reinforcement learning. In the DSM-V, anhedonia is a component of depressive disorders, substance related disorders, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders, where it is defined by either a reduced ability to experience pleasure, or a diminished interest in engaging in pleasurable activities. While the ICD-10 does not explicitly mention anhedonia, the depressive symptom analogous to anhedonia as described in the DSM-V is a loss of interest or pleasure.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by The Graduate.

  1. "Sit & Sink" – 3:47
  2. "I Survived" – 2:31
  3. "Bet It All" – 3:03
  4. "Anhedonia" – 3:32
  5. "The City That Reads" – 4:23
  6. "Better Company" – 3:23
  7. "Surround Yourself" – 4:20
  8. "Interlude" – 2:24
  9. "Doppelgänger" – 3:25
  10. "Stay the Same" – 3:20
  11. "Justified" – 2:27
  12. "Sing" – 5:22

Singles

Personnel

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