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Excellent, brilliant, amazing

H. Keatings | Dublin, Ireland | 09/01/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Most people into music know that emo came about as a rebellion to the macho-ness associated with hardcore punk music and that screamo is a sub-genre of emo that tends to be more extreme than mainstream emo.



While the movement has to be respected for introducing emotional expression into punk music, it doesn't really come across as sincere and the lyrics tend to be far too cheesey and cliched.



Circle Takes the Square however, make this style into nothing less than an artform. Spewing poetic symbolism and philosophical ponderings with distressed screams and focused whispers, constantly progressing within each song till it no longer resembles the initial form at all, reintroducing melodies and riffs from previous tracks and referring to old metaphors in new lights as the album prgresses; this is more of a musical novel than a collection of songs.



To get the full joy and experience out of it, you must listen to it the whole way through, in order and uninterrupted. The songs are meant to symbolise a journey towards enlightenment as an individual confronts different aspects of life. Each song is excellent when played in context, but the one downside is that many of them can seem quite empty and meaningless if you listen to them in isolation.



Apart from that glitch, anyone who is interested in artistic, creative music without any pretentiousness should get this album"

"For The Sake of Escape to Turn a Knife on itself"

Manchild | ohio | 07/25/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This band is should not even becalled scremo, hardcore, and not even post-hardcore. This band should be in there own genre. It should be called circlecore. I love this band so much because of the balance and sound of their music. With male/female vocals it has so much of a different type of music. There are only three people in the band and every member has something to sing on this cd. I think that all of the songs that they make has some signifficance to sometime in their life. They also0 have some religious lyrics in there to so I'm not sure what they are suppose to mean but It sounds cool. I love how this band isn't afraid to use words like "Thou" and "Passion" this just shows how creative and how poetic the people in this band are. This CD came out 2003 when are they going to make a new one? Just remember one thing no matter what happens they will always be "the Storm". This cd will change your life when you listen to their journey."