A great album needs a centrepiece, and Mike Polizze‘s Around Sound has just that, a five-minute work that seems to sponge up all that we have heard so far, submerge the listener in its splendour before packing us off to experience the second half of the album. ‘Wake Up’ could not be more on point with its title if it abruptly pulled the curtains apart in the morning and plied you with coffee. It is a hazy first hit of the daybreak sun, an acoustic rising that hovers into view, gently caressing the senses before taking flight. Music can be so powerful when lyrical imagery and sonic visions work in tandem. However, the words sung here have a distant, grainy filter, as though they are a voice in your head or some invisible dream state narrator that you cannot quite pinpoint.