Just as you are on the edge of being lulled into a false sense of security, just when you thought that CIRCUS, a band known for intense and incendiary rock and roll, bam! Right between the eyes! Granite-heavy riffs and bass bombardments, pummelling drums and anthemic vocals pin you to the wall. That’s how you do it…it’s certainly how Geordie three-piece CIRCUS does it anyway.
Rallying against a world sinking into superficiality, repetition, and technological distraction, theirs is a sonic howl, a kick back against the sheep-like conformity, and a decaying world that we are sleepwalking into. Music with a mission and a message.
But there’s more than that, as “Dog Hour Decline” also feels like a stand against the decline of rock music, a new benchmark to aspire to. This is music with bite, music that delivers the goods, music that reminds us of the groove of early AC/DC, the riffage of Foo Fighters, and is shot through with some punk attitude as well as clever use of dynamics. After all, sonic heights seem much more impressive when viewed from some lulling lows!
Yes, it is big music, but clever too, the message surpassing the usual rock and roll self-aggrandisement and shallowness, instead waxing poignantly lyrical about the erosion of morality and the decline of societal standards in the face of the new gods of the digital age. Or as they put it, the “twilight of the human spirit.”
Power with poignancy, groove with gravitas, melody with muscle, a new blend of rock and roll is on the menu, and I for one am planning on having seconds!
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