Circa Survive - The Amulet (September 22, 2017) Album • Page 44

Yeah sovereign is a fucking jam. Song is full of a ton of crazy shit. And I love it

 

That chorus is massive

 

Sovereign Circle is meh but Quiet Down is more meh

 

I understand you... it's funny about OLG, because OLG grown on me trough the time..

I listened Juturna three months after release date, and Circa turns into my favorite band. After two years, my hype was very high about OLG - in first times that i listened, i didn't like so much... was a considerable digesting process...

I put this album in my favorites, with Juturna and OLG, mainly because the "digesting process" almost didn't exist, and because it is almost all the things that i waited in third album...

I really have good chills with some songs...this album touchs me in a unique way.

 

Quiet down and always begin are my only men songs on descencus.
I think I'm in the minority on always.

 

Always Begin is one of the best songs on there mate

 

Is he using his falsetto or a head voice a lot on here?

Only asking bc it doesn't really sound like falsetto but a softer high voice which is usually head voice

 

I'm really happy with this album, I wasn't expecting to like it this much. The hex is a song that's really grown on me, I love these quieter choruses

 

Might be lyrically one of my least favorite since I felt free bud

 

The album is good. I think it only has a handful of explosive parts and really interesting guitar progressions, but most of the time the album just feels like a plateau of the same feel and melody. I realized by the time I started getting really stoked on the momentum it was already the outro of the song The Amulet.


I like The Hex and Stay and that one part where he screams he doesn't give a shit or something like that

 

Yeah that progression in the chorus is the standout of Descensus. It's pretty fantastic.

 

I listen to circa records very differently then I did 10 years ago. Back then I just wanted to hear Anthony soar super high over the dueling guitars didn't care too much about what the melodies were. Now I'm more focused on what the band is doing rhythmically and what the guitars and vocals are actually doing melodically.

 

This is right where I am now.

This one pays homage to their early sound moreso than anything else post-OLG, which is awesome... but on average, the songs here still don't have as much meat on their bones as those first two albums. After more listens, I've decided some of the spacey songs here are almost more similar to VW stuff like "My Only Friend" or "Blood from a Stone"... which I really enjoy, but they also aren't "Living Together."

The first two records are what they are - almost untouchable for some of us, and created in what was likely a radically different time in these guys' lives - and everything else they put out that I genuinely enjoy now is gravy.

 

this is totally better than BSN too though

 

When you think about how young this band was and how good their debut is compared to most bands it blows my mind.

 

Let's just vibe on how dumb I Felt Free is and how BSN is the black sheep of their discography.

 

it's insane. I always said it feels like luck they were able to achieve something so great and unique with it. Fuck it, it's one of the very best albums of the 2000s. Shits all over anything else from the "scene" too it feels unfair they're ever viewed through that lens. Under different circumstances than we know, this band could have been a much more huge deal.

 

My girlfriend and I were actually just talking about this. When thinking about our favorite bands, there is definitely a divide between the ones like Circa and ManOrch with debuts that rival their best work, and bands like Brand New and Paramore who have debuts that... don't.

 

I hope they just play this front to back on the upcoming tour

 

I regret not going to both Philly shows

 

I feel confident in saying that Flesh And Bone is one of the best songs this band has ever written

 

I'll be at the second Philly show, but I'm debating going to the first one as well if it hasn't sold out already.

 

I think I'll come around to that, but I can also see it settling in as tied with BSN on my list. Which is strange, cause I'm as single-mindedly in favor of the pre-BSN sound as any fan of theirs. But BSN I have to admit, aside from the couple cringey radio fodder tracks, does its own thing very well... even if it's not precisely the thing I want Circa to do. Whereas Amulet finds them returning much more to that old style, yet clearly executing it a peg or two below what they did 10 years ago.

 

Wait huh? You really think so?

 

I understand that Amulet feels weird and has the dueling guitars as do those first 2 albums but really it feels extremely different sonically from them for me after spending time with it. Different tones, delivery, and songwriting.