https://www.high-endrolex.com/18

New Russian Circles Album Out Oct. 25

I’ve come to really hate the redundancy of the phrase “digital download.” Well of course it’s a digital download. There isn’t any other kind! Let me just go to the ATM machine and get some cash money for that digital download. Ugh. It’s not like I can download a sandwich, and even if I could, I’d most likely be doing so from some form of the internet, making it still a digital download. It’s my new linguistic pet peeve, and at this point, I’m convinced the reason I keep seeing it in press releases is because record companies know that pay-downloads are a ripoff and they feel like they need to spice it up with an extra word.

It shows up in this release about Russian Circles‘ new album, Empros, which is out Oct. 25 on Sargent House, but it seems to be everywhere this week. “Digital download.” Well, here’s the press release, keyboard cut and paste from my electronic email. Grump grump grump:

Russian Circles return with not only their fourth and heaviest album to date — but also with Empros they’re poised to take the crown as innovators reinvigorating the staid trappings of genre. Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009’s Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian CirclesMaster of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection. Or, like a lone surviving wooly beast emerging from a brutal winter’s frost, Empros is the sound of a band shaking the ages from its shoulders with all the brutal force of a behemoth awakened.

Taking to Chicago‘s Phantom Manor studio once again with producer Brandon Curtis of The Secret Machines and Interpol — who also helmed the band’s previous album GenevaRussian Circles set out to experiment with their sound in new ways that would still reflect their live sound. In so doing, the band reached a new creative apex in which each of the musicians, guitarist Mike Sullivan, drummer Dave Turncrantz and bassist Brian Cook impart a streamlined and intensified attack to their songs that pummels even as it shifts throughout a range of moods and tempos.

Empros is Russian Circles‘ first full-length to be released worldwide exclusively via Sargent House, the band’s longtime management company and record label that had previously released only the vinyl editions of its three prior albums. It will be available everywhere on LP, CD and Digital Download on Oct. 25, 2011.

Russian Circles, Empros track list:
01. 309
02. Mladek
03. Schipol
04. Atackla
05. Batu
06. Praise Be Man

Tags: , , ,

3 Responses to “New Russian Circles Album Out Oct. 25”

  1. Dave Clifford says:

    Hey JJ,

    You’re right. I agree, “digital download” is redundant. But for whatever reason some people have been confused by simply writing “Digital” or “Download”. But, it’s time to move into the future. I’m going to insist on it being LP/CD/Download (or a variation thereof) from now on.

    Best,

    Dave

  2. UKGuy says:

    While you’re feeling grumpy about downloads digital or… errr… digital, you might be interested in this:

    www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online

    Grump on, dude :)

Leave a Reply