Review: Russian Circles - Station
Posted on 3 June 2008 | 3 Comments
Filed Under: Album Reviews, Hardcore & Metal, Post Rock
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Station, the sophomore full length from Chicago math-metal wizards Russian Circles, begins with the lovely circling slow building melodies of “Campaign” before blowing up the dam at 2:39 of the second song. Walls of metallic sound erupt but over the course of Station‘s six sprawling songs the deluge ebbs and flows in a way that swings, grooves, and remains captivating throughout. Fans of Isis, Explosions in the Sky, and Pelican take note; this is one of the year’s best so far.
MP3 | Russian Circles – Harper Lewis Station
Comments
I also have the same problem, they wind up the album like pelican’s“The Fire in our Throats..”.
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I think my favorite thing about russian circles is that they don’t do the continuous build-build-erupt-repeat thing that plagues so many “post-metal” albums. My main problem with most of those albums is that they wind up like pelican’s “The Fire in our Throats…”, which all feels like lead-in and lead-out to “March to the Sea”. Station is at least better at not recycling, and i think, better at using more than one type of structure.