Awake was the album which made me fall totally in love with DT; I had already listened to I&W but it hadn't really clicked with me. I actually bought the cassette version and the first time I listened to it I was blown away. I wasn't sure it was the same singer of I&W due to the different vocal approach.
Then when, thanks to a friend, I discovered that the CD version had another song on it and it turned out to be the one I liked the most, for me the album reached perfection.
It has a great album opener, a great instrumental, very dark and intense songs like Voices and Scarred, and the last three songs of the album for me are my favorite way to close an album ever.
JLB is incredible, especially in LSOAD and IF. I remember listening to innocent faded over and over and wondering how could it be possible for anybody to sing like that.
Moreover, I really love how the samples are used, especially 6:00 and the parts from "a room with a view" in SDV.
Another thing I like a lot is that there are concise songs instead of songs long just for the sake of being long; I hope this will be true also for DT12.
I love most of what DT has released afterwards, but no album is for me a musical journey so emotional as Awake. For sure the fact I fell in love with it when I was younger makes it closer to my heart.