Beneath the Watchful Eyes

Beneath the Watchful Eyes
Studio album by Arthur Loves Plastic
Released	31 March 2007
Genre	Electronica
Length	45:40
Label	Machine Heart Music
Producer	Bev Stanton
Arthur Loves Plastic album chronology
Troubled (2006) Beneath the Watchful Eyes (2007) Brief Episodes of Joy (2008)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Church of Girl	favorable [1]
Collected Sounds	favorable [2]
Dead Earnest	favorable [3]
Smother Magazine	favorable [4]

Beneath the Watchful Eyes is the fifteenth album from Arthur Loves Plastic, and was released in 2007. ^[5]

Awards

Beneath the Watchful Eyes won the 2007 Wammie for the Best Recording in the Electronica Category. ^[6] In the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards, the track "Women Alone" was nominated in the Techno Song category. ^[7]

Release notes

"Mischievous techno-inspired electronica."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bev Stanton.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rainbow Bridge"	3:23
2.	"Dark Side"	3:00
3.	"Free"	2:49
4.	"We Will Remember"	2:58
5.	"Hollow"	3:56
6.	"Empty PhilHarmonic"	2:37
7.	"The Grind"	1:55
8.	"If You Could See Me Now"	3:08
9.	"Afterglow"	3:06
10.	"I'll Be There"	3:17
11.	"Despair"	2:09
12.	"Women Alone"	2:48
13.	"Let's Do It!"	2:44
14.	"Misfortune"	3:00
15.	"The Puritans"	4:50
Total length:		45:40

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

1. "Review: Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Church of Girl. Retrieved July 5, 2009.
2. Stjärnell, Anna Maria. "Review: Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Collected Sounds. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
3. Garibaldi, Andy. "Review: Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Dead Earnest. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
4. Shawn, Jason. "Review: Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Smother Magazine. Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
5. "Arthur Loves Plastic - Beneath the Watchful Eyes". Allmusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved February 13, 2012.
6. The 2007 Wammies (Washington Area Music Awards).
7. 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards Song Nominees Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine .