The Audio of Being

by Matthew Good Band

The Audio of Being cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 October 2001
  • Label: Universal
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:03:26
  • Community rating: 3.98/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Warne Livesey

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Marking their final studio album before their disbandment and Matthew Good's subsequent solo career, 'The Audio of Being' represents a dark, highly introspective milestone in Canadian alternative rock history. Recorded during a period of intense internal band tension and Good's personal health crises, the record delivers a dense, complex, and anxieties-tinged soundscape. The songs balance heavy, post-grunge-inflected guitar hooks with cynical, poetic lyrics that directly address alienation and systemic failure.

Genres

Descriptors: Male Vocalist, Melodic, guitars, canadian, reflective

Tracklist

  1. Man of Action (7:00)
  2. Carmelina (4:16)
  3. Tripoli (4:38)
  4. Advertising on Police Cars (7:08)
  5. I, The Throw Away (3:09)
  6. Truffle Pigs (4:46)
  7. The Fall of Man (5:03)
  8. Under the Influence (4:32)
  9. The Rat Who Would Be King (6:47)
  10. Anti-Pop (4:08)
  11. The Workers Sing a Song of Mass Production (5:21)
  12. Sort of a Protest Song (6:33)

Credits

  • Matthew Good Band - primary artist
  • Little Andy Danger Corporation, The - artwork by [concept]
  • Lionel Drew - artwork by [illustration]
  • Various Students From Centennial High School - performer [youthful exuberance]

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