Celestial (Circle X album)

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Celestial
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Studio album by Circle X
Released August 3, 1994
Genre Art rock, noise, experimental
Length57:35
Label Matador
Producer Circle X
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Celestial is the final full-length studio album by Circle X and was released in 1994.

Circle X was an American experimental rock band, formed in 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky. They were part of the late 1970s/early 1980s No Wave scene.

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After experimenting and releasing EPs for more than a decade, Celestial marked the band's first major release since Prehistory in 1983.

Celestial is regarded as "showcasing the diverse, honed ideas in an impressive cycle of thought-provoking bludgeons and sublime dirges", [2] and "Circle X made it seem like no wave never went away." [1]

No wave was a short-lived avant-garde music and art scene that emerged in the late 1970s in downtown New York City. Reacting against punk rock's use of recycled rock and roll clichés, no wave musicians instead experimented with noise, dissonance and atonality in addition to a variety of non-rock genres, including free jazz and funk, while often reflecting an abrasive, confrontational and nihilistic worldview. In the later years of the scene, it adopted a more playful, danceable aesthetic inspired by disco, early hip hop and world music sources.

The album would be the last album by Circle X, due to the death of founding member and guitarist Bruce Witsiepe from HIV complications in 1995.

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Track listing

  1. "Kyoko" - 7:35
  2. "Pulley" - 3:55
  3. "Crow's Ghost" - 8:27
  4. "Gothic Fragment" - 3:49
  5. "Some Things Don't Grow Back" - 4:32
  6. "Tell My Horse" - 3:34
  7. "Hardcases (Big Picture)" - 3:33
  8. "Cabin 9 Dub" - 3:44
  9. "Waxed Fruit" - 4:58
  10. "Little Celestial Poet" - 12:21
  11. "They Come Prancing" - 1:07

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References

  1. 1 2 "Celestial". Allmusic . Retrieved 2012-02-09.
  2. "Circle X - Louisville Punk/Hardcore History". History.louisvillehardcore.com. 2005-11-07. Retrieved 2012-02-09.