October 17, 2009

Circulatory System - "Signal Morning"

I think what Circulatory System have developed with Signal Morning is a kaleidoscopic lens that looks back to a time when "tuning in and dropping out" was taken quite literally. Only this lens paints that picture with far fewer colors, mostly just whites, silvers, and blues. Gone are the reds, yellows, greens, and purples from that "far out" spectrum that was sprayed out before our eyes by the likes of Yellow Submarine or Magical Mystery Tour or Incense and Peppermints, for they seem to have been filtered out by a modern strainer that makes them more appropriate for today's world, a world filled with shiny, sleek technology and a penchant for plugging the mind into said technology rather than the abstractness of a lava lamp. Those free-thinking hyperboles of the aforementioned albums are still there--they are telling us to "breath with the universe" and "blast through" to the other side--but here, it's as if the Beatles have been dipped into liquid mercury alloys and have emerged more T1000 than Walrus.

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