Album Notes

Woke Up Falling. The name alone conjures images of a peaceful thought spiraling into an unknown abyss. It's that fleeting and often unexplainable moment that makes us thrash between the sheets as we struggle to grasp the line between the unconscious and the all too real. Portland, OR emo-pop perfectionists, Woke Up Falling, embrace that sense of calculated chaos and anticipated uncertainty.

Since late 2000, Woke Up Falling has taken music lovers on similar ethereal voyages with a sound that is often described as a cross between Jimmy Eat World and the Flaming Lips. Singer Gordon Muscutt brilliantly tells tales of angst, love and loss with an underlying sense of optimism. The music is as accessible as the best alternative pop song on the radio, but it's Muscutt's inspiringly melancholic and dreamy sound that puts them in the same house that The Cure and Radiohead built. In fact, the group's rhythm section-comprised of Shane Sanders (bass) and Cedric Justice (drums)-often slips into a vintage-era Cure soliloquy with guitarists Muscutt and Zac Martin following closely in sync.

Their latest offering, Dividing Blue from Blue, is a future classic full of indie rock gems. Tracks like "Laughing at the Thought" and "Something Beautiful" show the group's radio-friendly pop side, while the darker songs "October," "When the Traffic Dies" and "P.S." should give any goth-rock fan erect neck-hair. Says Muscutt, "I think we try to write songs that focus on energy and feeling...kind of a dreamy and pretty, yet emotive thing."

The group's earnest sound is a reflection of the band's life. While many of us often lose sight of the important things, Muscutt maintains perspective. When asked if he thinks he'll ever be rich and famous, he replies, "Our idea of rich and famous is paying rent and making friends. I think that all we want is to make music, pay rent and put out albums." So Muscutt and his bandmates cast an anxious eye toward the future...blurring the line between the conscious, subconscious and those ideas that live somewhere in between.