Circuit des Yeux - -io
| Artist: | Circuit des Yeux |
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| Genres: | Art Pop, Neoclassical Darkwave Baroque Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Progressive Pop |
| Released: | 2021 |
| Type: | Album |
| Label: | Matador |
| Link: | Bandcamp |
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A celebrated figure in Chicago’s music community, she has released acclaimed albums via De Stijl, Thrill Jockey, and Drag City and toured throughout the world. However, '-io' is Circuit des Yeux’s most ornate and elaborate work to date – a set of compositions that nest Fohr’s otherworldly four-octave voice amid a 24-piece string, brass, and wind ensemble. The album was put to tape last fall by Cooper Crain at Chicago’s Electrical Audio studio and mixed by Marta Salogni (Bjork, Holly Herndon) with Fohr acting as arranger and producer. Written in the wake of personal loss and recorded in the midst of the pandemic, '-io' maps a geography of grief – a place where “everything is ending all the time.” While Fohr’s music has never been short on ambition, these songs are striking in their brilliance and strangeness. On '-io', Circuit des Yeux has delivered a work that is vivid, immense, and fully illuminated....
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Circuit des Yeux’s first studio album since 2017, -io, and her first for Matador Records. The sky over -io is Florida’s strange, radiant orange. It’s a built environment, unnatural, made from concrete and glass, with skyscrapers that stretch to the vanishing point as you gaze up at them.
It’s crumbling and suffocating, a city perpetually on the brink of collapse, where tension never topples over into catharsis, where the heat never breaks.
Inside this world and its closed loop of time, Fohr found herself able to begin moving again. “I was haunted by memories in the pandemic,” she says. “As someone with PTSD, memories are all twisted up inside of me in a way that doesn’t help my higher self. Making this album was once again an exercise of trying to relieve myself of some of that darkness in a way that music has always done for me.”
released October 22, 2021
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Circuit des Yeux’s first studio album since 2017, -io, and her first for Matador Records. The sky over -io is Florida’s strange, radiant orange. It’s a built environment, unnatural, made from concrete and glass, with skyscrapers that stretch to the vanishing point as you gaze up at them.
It’s crumbling and suffocating, a city perpetually on the brink of collapse, where tension never topples over into catharsis, where the heat never breaks.
Inside this world and its closed loop of time, Fohr found herself able to begin moving again. “I was haunted by memories in the pandemic,” she says. “As someone with PTSD, memories are all twisted up inside of me in a way that doesn’t help my higher self. Making this album was once again an exercise of trying to relieve myself of some of that darkness in a way that music has always done for me.”
released October 22, 2021
Editions:
2021
Original Release
Matador
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| CD/Digital/Vinyl
| 01. | Tonglen | In Vain | (0:34) | |
| 02. | Vanishing | (4:34) | |
| 03. | Dogma | (3:24) | |
| 04. | The Chase | (2:42) | |
| 05. | Sculpting the Exodus | (5:02) | |
| 06. | Walking Toward Winter | (4:13) | |
| 07. | Argument | (5:03) | |
| 08. | Neutron Star | (6:08) | |
| 09. | Stranger | (5:40) | |
| 10. | Oracle Song | (3:56) |