The Karnivool journey has been a beautifully complicated one. With each album, a new chapter adds to one of Australian music’s most intricate legacies. And with their long-awaited fourth studio album, In Verses, Karnivool story proves itself to still be an ever-evolving one. Ten tracks that traverse feelings of frustration, catharsis and a rediscovery of identity, In Verses not only provides a fitting moment of reintroduction for long-time and casual Karnivool fans but for newcomers, the new album marks a striking gateway to a body of work built on an intense love for the craft. Working with longtime producer and collaborator Forrester Savell, Karnivool began to see the final form of In Verses become clearer in 2024, with the band entering the album’s tracking phase in early 2025. Overcoming their own confusion and frustrations with the process was a crucial element of this album’s completion – within In Verses itself, the listener can hear the band tear its own walls down in pursuit of finding the light again. “Our lives, our situations, our worlds…we’re very different from the last time we put out a record,” frontman Ian Kenny adds. “[In Verses is] an amalgamation of who we’ve become as a band, and as people, over the last ten years in pursuit of this record. That’s a helluva lot.” “We’re surprised by where we landed on things in the most wonderful way. What we’re listening to is the fruits of everybody’s hard efforts, and who they are. There’s a lot of us in this record and it’s wonderful to enjoy it thoroughly, purely for the fact that it just makes us feel good. That’s why these records exist.” Guitarist Drew Goddard furthers, “It strengthened the dynamic and the spirit of the band,” he explains. “It has gotten the individual members excited about the project of Karnivool – the creative vehicle that it is. There was a lot of struggle to get it to the point where it’s at, ready to be released to the world.”
