Inspired by everything from homeless rants to 80's film scores, Sputnik Monroe has escaped to the cosmos and returned with a different energy for the happily controlled capitalist robots. In 2005 they met with producer Ryan Hadlock (Blonde Redhead, The Blackheart Procession) to record 10 songs in ten days. The result is Sputnik Monroe's, first full-legnth self-released album, "Wake the Sleeping Giant" 2006.