Wednesday 16 May 2018

It's been 14 years since their last album but finally A Perfect Circle return...

It's difficult to say musically what Eat The Elephant sounds like but the sound does seem very in tune with the Emotive album from all those years ago. I suppose an more airy, less dense version of Tool is the best I can do

First single, The Doomed, was a bold, funereal-like march in which we are told that all there is to look forward to is being screwed over by the rich and powerful. Disillusioned is a melancholy lament about the world's technological obsession.

So far all very APC and then they slap you out of your complacency with the wonderfully off kilter So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. From namechecking the Douglas Adams book and including references to dolphins this track practically bounces along like a playful Cure (Think Friday I'm in Love). The line about the death of childhood heroes - "Willy Wonka, Major Tom, Ali and Leia have all moved on" is genius. Never has a song about the impending apocalypse sounded so fun

The amazing artwork is also some of the best this year so far


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