Dirt Sense is the 2nd studio album by South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n recording artist Ashton Nyte

Ashton Nyte

Ashton Nyte is a South African born singer, songwriter, producer, composer and front man of the South African alternative rock band The Awakening. Nyte has released five solo albums both as Ashton Nyte and Ashton Nyte and the Accused in addition to his numerous releases as The Awakening...

, frontman for the Gothic Rock

Gothic rock

Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

 band The Awakening

The Awakening (band)

The Awakening is an alternative rock band from Johannesburg, South Africa, formed in 1995 by vocalist, guitarist and producer Ashton Nyte. The band is credited in the press as "South Africa's most successful Gothic Rock act and one of the top bands in the far broader Alternative scene." The band...

. 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'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 Industry
2 Fever
3 Trite
4 The Summer The Sun Ignored