Album Rating: 4.0
Production so good I want to go check out who else Forrester has worked with
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah Forrester's production on this album is fantastic. He's produced a bunch of other big names in the Aussie prog scene besides Vool. His website lists Twelve Foot Ninja, Caligula's Horse, Cog and a bunch of other bands.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Someone mentioned somewhere the bagpipes are actually guitars. I wonder if that's true
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Album Rating: 4.0
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-06/karnivool-unpacks-album-in-verses-bagpipes-mental-health/106307988
Ah, right. So it's guitars AND bagpipes
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Album Rating: 4.5
@cloakanddagger He also produced a couple of Butterfly Effect albums but his work on this one is immaculate.
@kalkwiese yeah there's an interview on youtube that confirms this, but there are both real bagpipes and guitars with effects simulating bagpipes as well
edit: ah, came here to say that haha
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yea it’s a weird combo, I also thought there may be keys in the mix there too. Either way, it’s a pretty triumphant and bittersweet(?) way to end the record
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Album Rating: 4.0
the bagpipes are definitely a nice touch
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Album Rating: 3.5
Good review - strange...the two songs which stood out for me where Conversations and reanimation
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Album Rating: 4.0
Forrester also produced the new Textures if I'm not mistaken.
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Album Rating: 3.0
The considerable lapse in time between this and Asymmetry does make it an even more impressive achievement. Also felt this has a dark mature tone to it; a certain melancholic edge.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Album is overall quite good but I find a lot of it is in one ear and out the other for me; while each individual song is good they're all pretty similar so a lot of it runs together especially in the middle of the tracklist. I do find the first two tracks are excellent, and the end of Salva is sublime, that said. Went back and listened to Sound Awake after this and that album is so much more varied and dynamic track to track. 3.5 feels right on the nose for now but may grow with time, it's only been a week after all.
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Album Rating: 3.5
^^ my thoughts exactly so far. Solid 3-song start but then it gets almost too smooth where the songs are a comfort to listen to but doesn't pique my interest. Reminds me of the random album I reviewed (Obiymy Doschu's "CoH") where the music is so well done but you can tell that they edited and revised the songs to the bone that some of the personality feels missing.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Indeed, the strength of the record seem to decline as the second half kicks into gear. I did feel there was perhaps a slight lack of variety and a certain lack of musical risk taking. Some of these tracks felt a little too 'comfortable' in their stylistic choices, compositional structure, etc. The overall darker tone did appeal to me however.
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Always just kinda glazed over these guys.
Just listened to the first track form this, and then the first track from Sound Awake.
I am regretting my lapse in judgement.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yea I think the track list could have been worked out better. Front loading the singles which are relatively similar and saving all the more sonically interesting tracks for the later half wasn’t a great idea. I would have moved drone to near the end of the album and had conversations or reanimation after Ghost and Aozora.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I'm really glad I didn't listen to any of the singles before the album dropped, especially given how many singles were released. Just release the album after like 2 promo singles ffs
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Album Rating: 3.0
If this record inclines more people to explore the band's back catalogue that is a good thing in any case.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I think the second half is just as strong
The two animations are my favourites.
They’re all pretty solid though.
I agree with comments that it seems a little samey and in one ear out the other however I do think 6-7 listens later they do all find their own place and differentiate from each other more and more.
So just give it more time I think. I think it might for me be
Missing one shorter really catchy punchy number. That would just be my
Personal preference though
Overall great album
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Album Rating: 4.0
Can see the 4 down the road
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Album Rating: 3.0
Could see a 3.8 down the road.
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