Ten Basic Steps Towards Gratifying Insignificance

by Eat Your Neighbors

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1.	Breathe 02:39	buy track
2.	Don Your Mask 05:26	buy track
3.	Welcome Insomnia 04:35	buy track
4.	Befriend Id 03:01	buy track
5.	Collect a Personal Wealth of Drama 04:18	buy track
6.	Share your Personal Wealth of Drama 03:25	buy track
7.	Forfeit 03:25	buy track
8.	Impress Your Reflection 04:08	buy track
9.	Attempt to, and Ultimately Fail to Disuade Mortality 02:26	buy track
10.	Sleep 02:06	buy track

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released August 1, 2011

This is where it began. This is where it ended. This album is the alpha and the omega of Eat Your Neighbors. It is the primer, the key, the legend, to the map.

Ten Steps was written by Joe Granato in 2001, in a cramped apartment bedroom, using Cakewalk Pro 9, an Ensoniq TS 12 Sequencer, and a thrift store guitar, on a computer with just a few megabytes of storage. Songs were recorded one at a time, bounced, burned, and deleted to free up room for the next. It was fitting, being that the album was about futility and frustration of creative endeavors.

But those were the recordings that inevitably launched Eat Your Neighbors. That sense of futility was a thread that wormed through the bands entire run. And so, it seems fitting that ten years later, a re-recording of that initial album would be the best bookend for the decade spent aurally offending the masses.

It is no accident that the album itself exists as an infinite loop.

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Eat Your Neighbors Baltimore, Maryland

Eat Your Neighbors; the inevitable consequence of unmitigated procreation of so many stupid people.

Sonically, the band skated the delicate border where good musical sense meets untethered expression. Drawing on influences such as The Toadies, Barkmarket and NoMeansNo, their sound ranges from unique yet familiar to bizarre and quirky. They have a tendency to skew things just left of center. ... more

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