Album Notes

The Waking Eyes have signed to Coalition/Warner and are burning up the charts with the single "Watch Your Money" from their forthcoming record which is slated for release on September 7. Their debut came out on Endearing in Spring of 2002, drawing on a diverse range of influences like the Beatles, Radiohead, The Strokes and Beethoven to create an album that Canoe.ca called a "nugget of neo-psychedelic perfection".

The Waking Eyes were formed in June of 2000 after the demise of the internationally acclaimed Steinbach band the Pets. After seeing their previous group posthumously lauded in publications like Q, the Sunday Times, The Boston Phoenix, the Guardian and Uncut, Matt Peters and Myron Schulz were eager to start a new group and record an album. The two recruited Winnipegger Rusty Matyas (Novillero, Duotang), borrowed a phrase from a Pink Floyd lyric for their name, acquired new and improved hardware and software, and started to record an album. Drummers Dave Berthiaume and Steve Senkiw (of Novillero and the Pets, respectively) were borrowed for rehearsing and recording, and the album slowly began to take shape.


Matyas, Peters, and Schulz are equally represented on the album, from song-writing and vocal duties to instruments played. All three members share an intense curiosity about uncharted musical territory, but draw heavily from other artists and styles of the past, from Beethoven to the Beatles, from blues to big rock. The result is a winding post-modernist pastiche of layered vocals, instrumental passages, and sampled sound sure to provide something for everyone.