Artist: Copeland
Album: Eat, Sleep, Repeat

Label: The Militia Group

Tracks: 11

Length: 42 minutes

Review by: John Durkee

Eat, Sleep, Repeat, Copeland’s new album echoes ambition. Copeland dampens the subtle rock and catchy pop elements in order to showcase expansive use of instrumentation and organic production. This brings a warmer, intimate and inviting sound to better suit the vulnerable vocals. With new audio technology to program sounds and moods synthetically, organic methods are usually left by the wayside, leaving painstakingly recording artful and emotive songs to be the road less traveled. Copeland walks this road.

Lyrically Copeland continues to be idiosyncratic, yet losing the juvenile delivery of previous efforts, encompanding their new maturity. Controlled and precise song structure is obvious, adding to the overall value of Eat, Sleep, Repeat. The album pitfalls when the thematic feel is so strong, it is almost a detriment, as casual listens lend to songs blurring together. Careful listens allow one to hear the various flourishes of vibraphone, flutes, and fret noise of guitars, producing more satisfaction Lack of rhythm guitars helps showcase the vocal melodies and display the use of other instruments.

Eat, Sleep, Repeat may not satisfy all of Copeland’s fans as it departs from its rock sound, but will surprise more mature audiences with a new, more mature ambience.