This Australian teenager-turned-young adult songwriter certainly has a knack for keeping himself in the limelight. At the tender age of fourteen, BEN LEE and his band Noise Addict burst onto the Indie rock scene, due in large part to hearty endorsements form the likes of Thurston Moore and Mike D. Thousands of adults suffering from post-adolescent stress disorder fell head over heels for the Lee?s playful yet biting satires and tender perspectives on romance. Awake Is The New Sleep is Lee?s definitive album to date. Lee has been a mainstay on alternative rock airwaves; it?s hard to believe the Australian singer/songwriter is still only 26. For Awake Is The New Sleep (his sixth) he comes full circle on a decade of recordings, working with producer Brad Wood (Liz Phair, Smashing Pumpkins) who spearheaded the sound of Lee?s debut record Grandpaw Would in 1995. Awake? follows a comparable blueprint of 2002?s Hey You Yes You: uncomplicated, unassuming, no-gloss pop songs. But there is evidence of a newfangled wisdom in Lee and his sketches of songwriting dexterity, which include the chart-hit pop-rocker ("Catch My Disease"), the persuasive ballad ("Get Gotten"), the adoring folk number ("The Debt Collectors") and an indulgently experimental nine-and-a-half minute opus ("Light"). Code one could be the riff-fully sanguine opener ("Whatever It Is") in which Lee proposes we chase our instincts, then verifies on the ensuing thirteen songs that he does just that.
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