Album Review: Circle - Terminal

Circle
Terminal
(Southern Lord)

Circle’s Terminal album is an opus that crosses into powerful ambient territories in zealous defiance of modern rock's standard structures. There is nothing that one would consider normal from this Finnish quartet. Their energy is frantic and passionate, however, orchestrated through the brilliant clockwork of their elite genre bending song craft. Few bands can artfully move through a mosaic of styles so seamlessly without rendering their efforts to filthy and painfully pretentious noise. At its core Circle revolves around a maelstrom of rock one could immediately liken to the confrontational proto-punk meltdown of The Stooges. The Finnish vocals conjure a rabid esoteric mantra of eclectic tribal Norsemen dancing dangerously close to insanity, as the music dives through psychedelic, glam-pop, and furious acid rock riffs. Terminal is the example of how far rock music can continue to grow without the boundaries of stereotypes and genre models. 

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