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As the Roots Undo | 
| Artist: Circle Takes The Square
Label: Robotic Empire
Category: Music
Buy New: $10.98
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 106014
Format: Ep
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 31
UPC: 790168500923
EAN: 0790168500923
ASIN: B0000A4G83
Release Date: July 15, 2003
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
What's left to say? November 12, 2007
C. Brown
After all the praise this album has garnered, there's little I can say that you can't read in other reviews; the amazing, brutal, technical musicmanship; the absolutely incredible lyrics; the interesting back-and-forth between the two vocalists. But for me, the one thing that makes this album stand out above so many other albums by similar acts is the stark contrast between the softer, melodic, almost atmospheric passages and the slam-you-in-your-face intensity of other parts. For a perfect example of this, see Non Object Portrait of Karma; the first half of the song is a rather pretty atmospheric-type passage, but it transitions midway through into a crushing, gut-wrenching remainder, but with an amazing fluidity that is very rare to find. This "breathing room" is what keeps me coming back to this album time and again; while I love to put in a straight-up hardcore or metal album that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let up for forty minutes, the ability of this album to take me on an emotional roller coaster keeps it much higher on my playlist than most others.
Excellent, brilliant, amazing September 1, 2006
H. Keatings (Dublin, Ireland)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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" July 25, 2006
Manchild (ohio)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Terrifying depth in a shallow scene March 10, 2006
The Caster Kid (L...Caster PA.)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Grind and screamo have never been creative genres, merely impressive for their offensive emotional discharge and brutal technicalities and tone. Yet Circle Takes the Square have interwoven both genres with the delicate fingers of poets and visionaries. The cloud scraping level of musical mastery is only eclipsed by the foresight of the form and the classic range of the lyrical content. Dual screamers punctuate their nearly Shakespearean word play with vocals that shred, cut and call from separate sonic corners leaving anyone caught in between gorgeously decimated.
This is not the last gasping breath from the decaying lungs of a slowly dying scene- this is a choral battle cry straight from the lungs of a beast that is only begining to wake.
Circle Takes the Square stands alone.
buy this album March 10, 2006
L. R. Donato
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
its one of the best records ever put out, and dont listen to that guy, they were great live. i saw em in the basement at the knitting room in NYC, there was no ventalation, it was cramped as hell, everyone was sweating and stuffed, and it didnt matter at all. the kind of live energy you only get from real professionals
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