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| Artist: Russian Circles
Label: Suicide Squeeze
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2823
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 70
UPC: 803238007021
EAN: 0803238007021
ASIN: B0016MJ2R8
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Campaign | | • | Harper Lewis | | • | Station | | • | Verses | | • | Youngblood | | • | Xavii |
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Product Description
Metal trimmings, minimal jazz primers, and cryptic riffs that hit out of nowhere with the pummeling impact of a comet. Their music weaves up an intense and cinematic albeit soothing clobbering that cannot be pigeonholed. Their lumbering layers of chiseled post rock and feathery psychedelic infusions have both revved and enticed listeners into mental orgasms the world over. They've shared stages with Tool, Dalek, Daughters, and Pelican. Catch them on tour beginning in late May.
Album Description
Russian Circles is a three piece instrumental rock/metal band from Chicago. Similar to fellow Chicago residents Pelican, Russian Circles play epic, sprawling music which runs the gamut of heavy discordant metal, to soft delicate passages. They are known for their energetic live shows, which include tours with Minus the Bear, Chin Up Chin Up, Mono, and Pelican as well as an appearance at the 2006 SXSW. They were also the opening band for Tool while playing in the United Kingdom for their 2007 tour.
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Excellent Sophomore Release July 2, 2008
Russian Circles' second album is perhaps even better than critically acclaimed Enter (critically acclaimed in an underground sort of way). These guys are excellent musicians and their arrangments are very interesting and unique. If you are looking to get a taste of it, check out their myspace page and listen to Verses (available on their myspace page at this time - 7/2/2008). This song gives you a taste of what they do - slow build up and almost classical melodies leading up to some heavy riffs in the end. I know that there are other bands out there that create music that blands classical and heavy, but seeing these guys live and what they are able to do with just three instruments made me appreciate their music even more.
If you're new to the genre of post-metal /post-rock instrumental bands, if you are into Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Tool, Isis or Radiohead, this music may appeal to you.
Also, Amazon's description states that they have shared stage with Daughters. Don't let that confuse you - I find no overlap between the two bands.
humble,sleek,epic,sprawling,vast,shiny,razor sharp, progressive aesthetic metal June 8, 2008
This album is amazing. Russian Circles harness a lot of power for a 3 piece. Like Enter this album delivers a suburb crunch when needed but maintains a healthy balance of beauty and aggression. Sophisticated metallic music that bleeds sadness and displays honest emotion. An incredible sophomore release that will be sadly overlooked.
 Station: a brief review June 5, 2008
In Station Russian Circles play with the expansive sonic concepts they defined in their first album Enter. Songs build intensely only to reach a strangely fulfilling anti-climax. As with Enter the album is best listened to as a whole, allowing the listener to encapsulate the running themes and motifs. I give it a 3.75/5.
Much Needed Youngblood May 25, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just found out about these guys recently and I have to commend them on their musicianship and decision to do instrumental music. They are free from catering to some growling or shrilling vocalist who would undoubtedly wreck this music with bad themes and worse singing. It is about time some bands come forth that are committed to music only. I have been waiting for decades for a band like this to come along. They blend together all the good elements of heavy metal, progressive rock and psychedelia without the disruption of some wailing idiot trying to add his / her 2 cents. In the case of Russian Cirles the music is always headed somewhere and very vibrant. Many of the musical passages they have composed would not have come to be most likely if they were trying to fit in a vocalist. This is exiting and hopefully they don't rethink their formula or be forced to by the short attention span of most music buyers.
From the start of Station you can tell the musicianship is top notch and it is a surprise when you realise they get all this sound as a 3 piece. The guitarist has great taste and a unique way of playing with two hands on the fretboard at times. This gives the illusion of a fourth player and is very well executed, no overkill and all substance. The percussionist is noteably top rate and creative as is the bassist.
Hopefully this form of music will spawn future rock musicians to explore what they can accomplish with instruments only. Russian Cirles will hopefully be looked at one day as pioneers of instrumental rock music and be able to continue their craft in the present. The few bands at the helm of this new territory are critical to pushing rock music forward. One of the key ingredients is that the musicianship is great but not by the amount of notes per second rule that used to apply. This music is about sound, emotion and creativity and has far more impact than the million notes approach. If you like this type of thing other bands to keep an eye on are Red Sparowes , Explosions in the Sky, Grails and Pelican. Hopefully there will be more to come.
Great record guys ! Buy it!
MAGNIFICENT May 16, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
My gawd, how do these guys do it? Simply amazing album, I been spinning this album since the day it was released. Russian Circles are definitely now my top post-rock band. I hope they play here in Colorado some time. Highly recommended.
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