Circle Gets the Square

Circle Gets the Square is Kevin Devine's first studio album as a solo artist. It was released in 2002 through Immigrant Sun Records. The songs featured here contrast those of Miracle of 86's (a band in which Kevin was the lead singer and guitarist). Kevin felt the style and themes of the songs did not fit in with the rest of the band's music.

The song "Protest Singer" was inspired by a lyric in The Smiths' "Shakespeare's Sister": I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar then it meant that you were a protest singer.^[1]

...I just used the lyric for a flyer for one of my first solo shows. Then when I thought about it, I realized it was true. Before Dashboard Confessional and all that, everyone associated a guy with an acoustic guitar as being a folk protest singer.

Track listing

1. "Fingerprints & Photographs" – 3:43
2. "Write Your Story Now" – 1:39
3. "Protest Singer" – 3:22
4. "Guys with Record Collections" – 3:28
5. "If We Meet Today" – 3:48
6. "This Box Is Empty" – 3:47
7. "Working in Quiet" – 3:39
8. "Letting a Good One Go" – 3:39
9. "Confessional at 6 P.M." – 3:57
10. "Lullaby for a Snow-Faced Girl" – 3:52

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