''Dirt Sense'' is the second studio album by
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
n recording artist
Ashton Nyte
Ashton Nyte is a South African-born musician who is the frontman of the gothic rock band The Awakening. Nyte has released seven solo albums, in addition to eleven albums as The Awakening and several other projects and collaborations. He is consi ...
, frontman for the
Gothic Rock
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie an ...
band
The Awakening The Awakening may refer to:
Religion
* Awakening (Finnish religious movement), a Lutheran movement in Finland
* Great Awakening, several periods of Anglo-American Christian revival
Film and television Film
* ''The Awakening'', a 1913 film starring ...
. Described as "stripped down, minimalist, under-produced, almost dirty", and "a powerful album with strong tunes and hard-hitting lyrics" the album contains some of the artist's "most personal" songs. A video was produced for the single ''Window'' and aired throughout South African music television.
In 2005 Dirt Sense was re-released as a second edition, remixed and mastered with a bonus CD featuring, among others, Nyte's interpretation of
Elvis
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Presley's sexuall ...
's "Fever."
Track listing
# Conclusion
# Sick Of This
# Valentine
# Stained
# Eloquent Verbosity
# Automation
# Clean Again
# Window
# Down
# The Other Band
# New Messiah Of The Week
# Splinters
# Consequence
(Bonus CD – b-sides and out-takes)
1 Plastic Industry
2 Fever
3 Trite
4 The Summer The Sun Ignored
References
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2002 albums