Emerald Rain - Sleepwalk (2005) [Japanese Ed.]

Posted By: Andi_Deris

Date: May 23, 2013

The overall sound of "Sleepwalk" is however way more up-to-date and modern than some of their previous attempts. The aggressive and slightly down-tuned guitar sound add a more edgy attitude and you definitely need to be open minded about the whole old vs. modern rock discussion. It's neither something you'll instantly embrace at first spin.

It really hits you over the head during the third or fourth spin though!!! "Sleepwalk" is a well balanced album with a modern hardrock sound and without any real downers, but you need to have patience with the material. Some of the tracks do kind of melt together and seem to have no real beginning or ending. It's not that I'm especially jaded or anything, it's just that this "Harem Scarem" sounding genre has strangled itself at times with its massive supply of copy-cats (you could say that 'Harem' are such as well actually). But I guess the later goes for "any" rock genre of today really. And this is a well executed mid-paced nu-rock album with considerable emphasis on melody and harmony vocals. Check out the massive rock of "Face In The Mirror" or the excellent semi-ballad "I Never Knew", and you'll suddenly realize that "Sleepwalk" is easily as good, if not better, than Harem Scarem and their "Overload" release. ~ Review by Urban "Wally" Wallstrom

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Track Listing

01. Can't Stop Bleeding (3:23)
02. Face In The Mirror (3:51)
03. It Ain't Over (3:49)
04. Sleepwalk (5:27)
05. I Never Knew (3:32)
06. Can't Recognize A Thing (4:01)
07. Everything Is Broken (4:27)
08. See It In Your Eyes (3:46)
09. Torn In Two (4:15)
10. Miracle (3:46)

Produced by Murray Daigle, Mike Dmitrovic & Sean Gregory

The Band

• Murray Daigle - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
• Mike Dmitrovic - Guitars, Backing Vocals, Keyboards
• Sean Gregory - Bass, Backing Vocals, Keyboards
• Lorne Boyle - Drums

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 2. June 2012, 14:09

Emerald Rain / Sleepwalk

Used drive : SlimtypeDVD A DS8A5SH Adapter: 0 ID: 1

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "Date=%year%" -T "Genre=%genre%" %source%

TOC of the extracted CD

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9 | 32:19.32 | 4:15.21 | 145457 | 164602
10 | 36:34.53 | 3:46.20 | 164603 | 181572

Range status and errors

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Filename D:\My Music\Emerald Rain - 2005 Sleepwalk\Emerald Rain - Sleepwalk.wav

Peak level 96.6 %
Extraction speed 4.2 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 5C9B0486
Copy CRC 5C9B0486
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

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Many thanks to the original uploader: kolushew