''Dirt Sense'' is the second studio album by
South Africa
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n recording artist
Ashton Nyte
Ashton Nyte is a South African-born singer, songwriter, producer, composer, author, actor, and frontman of the gothic rock band The Awakening (band), The Awakening. Nyte has released seven solo albums, in addition to eleven albums as The Awakeni ...
, frontman for the
Gothic Rock
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band
The Awakening. Described as "stripped down, minimalist, under-produced, almost dirty", and "a powerful album with strong tunes and hard-hitting lyrics" the album contains some of the artist's "most personal" 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
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's "Fever."
Track listing
# Conclusion
# Sick Of This
# Valentine
# Stained
# Eloquent Verbosity
# Automation
# Clean Again
# Window
# Down
# The Other Band
# New Messiah Of The Week
# Splinters
# Consequence
(Bonus CD – b-sides and out-takes)
1 Plastic Industry
2 Fever
3 Trite
4 The Summer The Sun Ignored
References
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2002 albums