Circle X (EP)

Circle X
EP by Circle X
Released 1980
Genre No wave
Label Celluloid
Circle X chronology

Circle X
(1980)
Prehistory
(1983)

Circle X (officially untitled[1]) is an EP and the debut release by American experimental rock band Circle X. It was on 12" vinyl in 1980 in France, through then-nascent record label Celluloid.[1]

Background

CMJ described the album as a "raw, alien, dense set of four tuneless almost-not-even-songs made of spattered guitar, drums and Tony Pinotti's wrecked, howling voice".[2]

Track listing

Side A
No. Title Length
1. "Tender"   2:34
2. "Albeit Living"   2:30
Side B
No. Title Length
1. "Onward Christian Soldiers"   3:34
2. "Underworld"   2:54

Critical reception

Trouser Press opined that the EP was "practically unmatched in its day. [...] Nothing sounded like this in 1979. Circle X caught the tail end of the no wave scene and out-waved it with a mere four ear-splitting compositions."[3]

Re-issues

Circle X was later re-issued on CD in 1996 through label Dexter's Cigar. It was re-issued on 12" vinyl in Germany in 2009 through label Insolito.

Personnel

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Circle X Bio". matadorrecords.com. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  2. Wolk, Douglas (June 1996). "Singles". CMJ New Music Monthly. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  3. Mamone, Jordan. "trouserpress.com :: Circle X". trouserpress.com. Retrieved 14 March 2013.

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