Woke Myself Up is an album by Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron

Julie Doiron is an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage.-Background:Doiron started playing guitar in Eric's Trip at the age of eighteen, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Rick White, also of Eric's Trip...

, released in 2007.

Doiron's former Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip

Eric's Trip is a Canadian indie rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick. Eric's Trip achieved prominence as the first Canadian band to be signed to Seattle's flagship grunge label Sub Pop in the early 1990s...

 bandmate Rick White

Rick White (musician)

Rick White is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter. He was a member of indie bands Eric's Trip, Elevator, Perplexus, and The Unintended...

 produced and played on the album. Three songs on the album — "I Woke Myself Up", "No More" and "The Wrong Guy" — also include contributions by Mark Gaudet

Mark Gaudet

Mark Gaudet is a Canadian musician from Moncton, New Brunswick. He has played in various indie and metal music groups, such as Elevator, Eric's Trip, Purple Knight and Funeral Fog. In 1974, at the age of eleven Gaudet formed his first band, Purple Knight. In 1991, Gaudet joined Eric's Trip, taking...

 and Chris Thompson

Chris Thompson (Canadian musician)

Chris Thompson is a Canadian musician who has performed in a variety of Maritime bands, including Eric's Trip, The Memories Attack, Orange Glass, and his solo project Moon Socket. Although Thompson was born in Ottawa, his family moved to Moncton, New Brunswick when he was five years old...

, the other two former members of Eric's Trip. This was the first time the four musicians released new material together since the breakup of Eric's Trip in 1996, although they have performed together on stage a number of times.

The album artwork was created by Julie's friend, artist and animator Tara Wells of Sackville, New Brunswick, who also created the video for "Swan Pond".

Reception

Woke Myself Up was shortlisted for the 2007 Polaris Music Prize

2007 Polaris Music Prize

The 2007 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 24, 2007 in Toronto.The winning album was Patrick Watson's Close to Paradise....

, alongside such other acts as Arcade Fire, The Besnard Lakes

The Besnard Lakes

The Besnard Lakes are a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Formed in 2003 by the husband and wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, two of their three albums have been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize.-History:...

 and Joel Plaskett Emergency.

Woke Myself Up also topped the !earshot campus/community radio Top 50 for 2007.

Track listing

1. "I Woke Myself Up" - 2:45
2. "You Look So Alive" - 1:46
3. "Swan Pond" - 2:25
4. "Yer Kids" - 2:33
5. "I Left Town" - 2:42
6. "No More" - 2:15
7. "Don't Wanna Be / Liked By You" - 2:53
8. "Dark Horse" - 3:22
9. "The Wrong Guy" - 3:36
10. "Me and My Friend" - 2:46
11. "untitled" - 2:54