Memorial Russian Circles SKU: SH111LP Barcode: 0634457623613 24.00 £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sargent House Released Date: 27th May 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Perhaps the most immediately apparent characteristic of the fifth Russian Circles album, Memorial is its wide range of emotion. Vacillating from somber-yet-soaring melodies on one track to pummeling metal heft on the next, Memorial sounds like an album with split personalities. “We’ve always tried to balance our metal-influenced sounds with more nuanced, pretty, orchestral elements,” Cook says. “But this time, it’s far more polarized in that the heavy parts are much more blown out and exaggerated while the pretty moments are far more restrained, delicate, and atmospheric.” In the two years since Russian Circles released their landmark fourth album Empros, the Chicago trio toured worldwide nearly incessantly, encountering many heavy acts whose music seemed needlessly complicated. “We set out to make a straightforward, intense, heavy record,” Cook explains. “We subconsciously gravitated toward darker and more somber sounds. We wanted to get away from the overtly flashy.” In search of such a streamlined sound, the trio focused on each individual song having its own emotional and musical characteristics. As such, Memorial almost feels like stages of grief. That notion might be aided by 1) the album’s clever structuring, in which it ends in the same place as it starts, and 2) special guest vocalist Chelsea Wolfe lending her hauntingly somber vocals to the album closing title track. To a degree, the monolithic, juxtaposed moods on Memorial is the band’s reaction to the proliferation of iPod culture affecting how bands write music. Today, most musicians are trying to mash together disparate elements with results sounding as unpalatable as cooking a meal blindfolded. Russian Circles wisely and deftly sidestep the trappings of genre amalgamation. “I want to hear a band with a broad palette,” Cook says. “But it should find that weird balance with breadth and width. We wanted to make a record with more extreme peaks and valleys. I’m hoping that we can get away with making a schizophrenic record.” Artist Russian Circles Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Sargent House Buying Options 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Memoriam Deficit 1777 Cheyenne Burial Ethel Lebaron Memorial (Featuring Chelsea Wolfe) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Russian Circles View Product Quick View Russian Circles Station (15th Anniversary Re-issue) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sargent House | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th July 2023 £26.00 - £28.00 Select options Russian Circles Station (15th Anniversary Re-issue) £26.00 - £28.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sargent House Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th July 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Russian Circles Gnosis Rock And Pop | Sargent House | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 19th August 2022 £25.00 - 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