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Metacritic	64/100
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AbsolutePunk	89%
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Contactmusic.com	4/5
Entertainment Weekly	B
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IGN	5.4/10
Iowa State Daily	3/5
Now	3/5
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Sound the Alarm is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Saves the Day. After signing to major label DreamWorks Records, the band released In Reverie in late 2003. However, shortly afterwards DreamWorks Records was absorbed by Interscope Records, resulting the band being dropped from label. Following a line-up change, the band started working on Sound the Alarm. While self-funding the sessions, the band worked with Steve Evetts at their own studio, Electric Ladybug Studios. In early January the band re-signed with independent label Vagrant Records.

After touring with Circa Survive and Moneen in spring 2006, Sound the Alarm was released in April. The album's release was preceded by the stream of two songs: "The End" and "Shattered". The band performed as part Warped Tour, before going on to tour with I Am the Avalanche, Pistolita and Say Anything. Sound the Alarm has received mixed to positive reviews, and has since sold over 49,000 copies. The album peaked at number 67 on the Billboard 200 chart and number 4 on the Independent Albums chart.

In 2003, Saves the Day signed to major label DreamWorks Records.In Reverie was released in September of that year through the label. Frontman Chris Conley received a call from the band's A&R person at DreamWorks Records: "[H]e said, 'None of the programmers at radio are biting at the single, and MTV doesn't want to play the video, so we're going have to start thinking about the next record.' I had a total breakdown. I was like, 'How is this possible? The album just came out!'" A few weeks after the album's release, DreamWorks Records was absorbed by Interscope Records and not long after, the band were dropped from the label. Using all the money they had, the group decided to build their own studio. Conley explained: "if we have a place to make cheap records, we can keep the band going for years."

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