''Wake/Lift'' is the second full-length album by

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. The album was released on October 2, 2007 through Translation Loss Records on CD, with a limited-edition double LP prepared for late 2008. This album is the first to not be entirely engineered by the band. It is also Rosetta's first to be recorded to

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. Consequently, the production on ''Wake/Lift'' is more refined than the band's previous works.

Release

Months before the album's release, the band had been performing "Red in Tooth and Claw" at live show as far back as April 2007. The track "Wake" was posted on the MySpace for Translation Loss Records in a low-quality format on August 17, 2007, and again later on Rosetta's own MySpace on August 19, 2007. A component disc, entitled ''The Cleansing Undertones of Wake/Lift'', was released alongside ''Wake/Lift''. It contains a collection of ambient samples used by Armine. It is, however, not meant to be synchronized with ''Wake/Lift'' (as '' The Galilean Satellites'' was); Armine "purposely designed ''The Cleansing Undertones of Wake/Lift'' to make ''Wake/Lift'' sound terrible if played together". In September 2008, the album was remastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. It comes in three limited-edition color combinations. It was released 11 Nov 2008Translation Loss Records
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Style

Guitarist J. Matthew Weed has stated that the band has taken on a more melodic, technical, and experimental sound. Rather than sounding entirely like the

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style of '' The Galilean Satellites'', ''Wake/Lift'' falls more into the

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influences. Lyrically and thematically, the album deals much less with astronomical concepts and is more influenced by vocalist Mike Armine's experiences as a teacher. He states,

Track listing

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Personnel

*Michael Armine – sound manipulation, vocals *David Grossman – bass guitar *Bruce McMurtrie Jr. – drums *J. Matthew Weed – electric guitar, mixing *

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– mastering *Paul Romano –

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References

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