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Russian Circles – Empros

The heavy instrumental ‘post’ everything Chicago based band, Russian Circles, is a genre defying group sprawling through explosive discordant sounds, yet countering with intricately mesmerizing woven melodies.

Easily a conundrum of classification. If an attempt is to be made with words, Russian Circles is like an explorative journey that transverses an aggressive, energetic catalyst of something say like the Chernobyl disaster, then decontaminates into an atmospheric state of reflective solitude. Constructive, dynamic, layered, and expansive.
Simply put, Epic.

Russian Circles upcoming full-length, Empros, is due out October 25, 2011
via Sargent House.

Russian Circles | Empros

Russian Circles – Mladek


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Battles – Gloss Drop

After a four year hiatus since Mirrored, Battles released their second LP album, Gloss Drop. This is their first album as a trio following the departure of vocalist / instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton. However, they recruited some proper guests to fill-in the vocal void including: synthpop musician Gary Numan, Boredoms cult leader Yamantaka Eye, Blonde Redhead singer Kazu Makino, and Chilean born world pop disco artist Matias Aguayo.

A little more accessible than their earlier material, it’s a refined expansion sprawling with complex propulsive grooves. It is a type of music with an uniquely creative blend culminating the technological fusion of human and machine, which may very well prove the theory of singularity. Frenetic and spastic, it shifts gears over a post modern atmosphere inter-meshing machine loops with precise instrumental complexity.

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