December 21, 2012 • self-released
Time for a long-overdue followup. I reviewed the first half of this album way back in November 2011 and found it a bit tough to get into. The whole thing finally came out this past December and I have to admit that I'm enjoying it a bit more now, but ultimately it's probably not for me.
I'd probably chalk it up to my tastes changing a bit over the past couple of years; after all, I've been listening to a lot more of this "extreme punk" sort of stuff lately so Circle Takes the Square fits in a bit better with my normal music listening.
Obviously a lot of what I said in the first review still applies, as it doesn't seem that the first four songs were reworked any. The band's style is still very chaotic and polystylistic, making most of the songs a bit hard to grasp. But the album's complexity is still very interesting to me, and it's fun to pick out the various intricacies it has.
But, as I predicted, forty-plus minutes of that (if we ignore the closing track) gets to be too much for me. Albums like this verge on sensory overload and eventually my brain just gives up trying to follow along. Which is unfortunate because there are some genuinely really cool parts to the album, like the majority of "Singing Vengeance into Being", which a good track but one that it's tough for me to even get to.
So I dunno—I guess this sort of music still isn't quite for me, though I can see its appeal to some. In any case, the band is gracious enough to put the digital version up for free download, so it's no cost to check it out for yourself.
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