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Music Review: Sound Awake – Karnivool

Karnivool’s second album, Sound Awake has the same distinct Karnivool sound whilst also being a marked progression. Sound Awake is a complex and multi-layered album that really needs to be listened to a few times to really appreciate it in its entirety.

Sound AwakeAnd it seems every time I listen to Sound Awake, I gain something new from it, or just love it on a whole new level. It’s one of the reasons it’s taken me longer than usual to write this review. Each listen offers something new and makes me feel unable to understand it totally. I know the next listen will offer me something else.

The first listen is even a little disorientating. A lot of it sounds so different to Karnivool’s first album Themata, and unconventional to the genre. There’s lots of building up to big finishes, it’s epic even if the build up feel like they don’t eventuate to anything all of the time.

Almost all of the tracks are favourites for me, but at the moment ‘New Day’ is good in the conventional Karnivool way and ‘Deadman’ has been the stand out track of the album since the first listen. It’s such an epic and intense track. It very much encapsulates the whole album, alongside with the other epic track, ‘Change.’

This follow up lived up to high expectations from fans, maintaining the sound that attracted people originally whilst also providing something new and developed that wasn’t just a repeat of their previous album. Sound Awake is one of those albums you’ll have to play over and over.

Rating: ★★★★☆

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  • [...] Music Review: Sound Awake – Karnivool Karnivool’s second album, Sound Awake has the same distinct Karnivool sound whilst also being a marked progression. Sound Awake is a complex and multi-layered album that really needs to be listened to a few times to really appreciate it in its entirety. And it seems every time I listen to Sound Awake , I gain something new from it, or just love it on a whole new level. It’s one of the reasons it’s taken me longer than usual to write this review. Each listen offers something new and ma [...]

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