Sound Awake
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| Studio album by Karnivool | ||||
| Released | 5 June 2009 (Aus) 16 Feb 2010 (US) |
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| Recorded | Blackbird / Kingdom Studios, Perth, Western Australia | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, alternative metal | |||
| Length | 72:10 | |||
| Label | Cymatic Records Sony Music |
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| Producer | Forrester Savell | |||
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Sound Awake is the second studio album by Australian progressive rock band Karnivool, released on 5 June 2009.
The album follows a four-year gap since their debut studio album Themata in 2005. Sound Awake was produced by Forrester Savell (The Butterfly Effect, Dallas Frasca) and recorded at Perth’s Blackbird and Kingdom Studios over several months. It was later mixed at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios and mastered by Tom Coyne (DJ Shadow, The Roots) at Sterling Sounds in New York City.
In an interview bassist Jon Stockman describes the differences between the band's two albums.
The main difference would be that the bulk of Themata was written by Drew and arranged by a few of us whereas both the writing and arranging for Sound Awake was much more of a collaborative effort from everyone. In addition to that, a lot of Themata was written straight to a recording session before ever being played as a band, whereas we pretty much wrote most of the Sound Awake in a jam-room environment.
The name of the album was conceived by Drew Goddard and the album cover artwork was undertaken by graphic designers, Joe Kapiteyn and Chris Frey.
We originally wanted a foldout design but found that the standard book worked better with the number of artwork pictures that we had in mind. In the end, the final cover was a mixture of input from all the band and Joe.
The album was released on 5 June 2009 through Cymatic Records and distributed by Sony Music Australia. The first single from the album, "Set Fire to the Hive", was released prior to it, on 28 April 2009, with a video being released on 8 May. The second single, "All I Know", was released on 9 November 2009, along with an accompanying music video.
Sound Awake was played as the 'feature album' on radio station Triple J. They played the entire album, one song per day, with some songs featuring short spoken introductions by members of the band. On 17 July 2009 it was nominated for a J Award - 'Australian Album of the Year'.
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