The Great Awake are from far away across the globe, namely from Sydney, Australia. There are twelve songs on this beautiful record. This band play their vision of melodic punk rock, kind of mixture between old school nineties sound of all those Fat/Epitaph bands that I grew up with and learned to love this music so much, and more mid tempo modern emotional melodic punk not unlike Flatliners or The Menzingers with kind of nervous guitar melody, bass and vocals bordering between singing clean and melodic, but also screaming melodic at times. Songs like ‘A Shitty Midlife Crisis’, ‘Our 20s Have Stopped Roaring’ and ‘Too Stubborn To Quit’ are lyrically and musically totally something that I can relate to in every way, being in the scene for thirty years now. We are speaking here of tight incredible musicianship and great songwriting what makes this record a secret little jewel of the punk rock scene.
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