11 tracks · 72 min
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. 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. 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."
