RUSSIAN CIRCLES - Memorial (Repress) HAL BLAINE Australia’s ultra-strict lockdown rules -

Australia’s ultra-strict lockdown rules - declaring it illegal to travel beyond a 5km radius - made it nigh on impossible for the band to get together at all

They weave through her flurries of beautiful melodic hooks

it is an album of light and dark and steeped in the classic singer-songwriter tradition

MF DOOM and Madlib were off the radar to many in 2003

it is awe-inspiring to see Eliran articulately revive the image

RUSSIAN CIRCLES - Memorial (Repress) HAL BLAINE Australia’s ultra-strict lockdown rules -LP Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Silver with Black Splatter Vinyl Repress. 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