In the interest of honesty, I've just out and out deleted (without listening to) any press releases I've received from Wakey!Wakey! in the last few months for the following reasons:

1. I've just kinda been doing that lately. Sorry. My Inbox is a fucking mess, and I hugely regret the time a few years back when I chose to consolidate my personal email and my email for press correspondence. I'll live with it. However, if your press release email title includes the words "Dubstep", "House", or some bullshit hyphenate (usually with a "Post" prefix), I'm just going to delete it. Browser window real estate ain't cheap, and I have a life away from this URL.

2. I've always found punctuation in band names to be a hugely irritating* flourish. Let's play a game: You Say Party! We Say Die! Panic! At the Disco The Academy Is... Run. Away. From. The. Humans. !!! Does It Offend You, Yeah? :wumpscut:. How many bands are listed in italics? THE ANSWER MAY SURPRISE YOU.

3. I've yet to receive a press release for Wakey!Wakey! that didn't include a reference to the CW drama One Tree Hill, which apparently, the group's frontman (Mike Grubbs) stars on. If you're unfamiliar with One Tree Hill, then we're in the same boat, as I know the series only for inflicting Gavin DeGraw's "I Don't Want To Be" on the world, and the below 30 seconds of unintentional hilarity.



NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A "COLD" OPEN!

This is why we should try new things. Citing the classic case of Judgement v. Book Cover, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), Wakey!Wakey!'s latest album Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said the Last Time I Saw You is a revelation; a rhythmic embrace of heart-on-your-sleeve poetics and indie holler with it's tongue planted not in cheek, but suspended mid- maw in a howl of hurt. PR people: I implore you to ditch the One Tree Hill associations for fear of associating the group with the dead-eyed smarty pants vamp of Gavin DeGraw. "I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately" has to be the emptiest lyric in all adult contemporary music since Matchbox 20's "I wonder what it's like to be the rainmaker, I wonder what it's like to know that I'd made the rain"- no small feat.

I've spent too much time here talking about things that aggrivate me. Lyrically and melodically, Wakey!Wakey! shines. Spin album standout "Twenty Two" below, a song that I at once love and totally do not need to embrace the sentiment of right now. Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said the Last Time I Saw You is now available via Family Records/Timber St. @ iTunes & Amazon.

Wakey!Wakey! "Twenty Two"

*Just as a punctuated band name has not kept me from enjoying the group featured in this entry, punctuation has not kept me from enjoying Was (Not Was), Against Me!, Man or Astro-man?, and ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Still, an irritating flourish.