Dirt Sense Explained

Dirt Sense
Type:Album
Artist:Ashton Nyte
Cover:AshtonNyte_Dirt Sense.jpg
Released:2002
Recorded:2002 Intervention Arts Johannesburg, South Africa
Genre:Alternative rock, indie rock, lo-fi, experimental rock
Label:Intervention Arts
Producer:Ashton Nyte
Prev Title:The Slender Nudes
Prev Year:2000
Next Title:Sinister Swing
Next Year:2003

Dirt Sense is the second studio album by South African recording artist Ashton Nyte, frontman for the Gothic Rock band The Awakening. Described as "stripped down, minimalist, under-produced, almost dirty",[1] and "a powerful album with strong tunes and hard-hitting lyrics" [2] the album contains some of the artist's "most personal"[3] 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's "Fever."

Track listing

  1. Conclusion
  2. Sick Of This
  3. Valentine
  4. Stained
  5. Eloquent Verbosity
  6. Automation
  7. Clean Again
  8. Window
  9. Down
  10. The Other Band
  11. New Messiah Of The Week
  12. Splinters
  13. Consequence

(Bonus CD – b-sides and out-takes)1 Plastic Industry2 Fever3 Trite4 The Summer The Sun Ignored

Notes and References

  1. http://www.youngside.doityourselfstorebuilder.com/catalog/item/5989936/5829504.htm Youngside Records
  2. http://www.rock.co.za/legends/2000plus/ashton_nyte_dirt_sense.html SA ROCK
  3. http://www.ashtonnyte.com/ Ashton Nyte Official Site