Circles shoegaze nightclub grooves

nightclub grooves

1987’s “Inner Marshland” originally was recorded via the home studio four-track portastudio set up that was used for the debut album in Walthamstow

Tony Sly writes concise lyrics and simple singsong melodies

Following dozens of solo recordings

Those jazz critics who shunned him for becoming too commercial must eat their words

Circles shoegaze nightclub groovesOn their third full length, 2012's Circles, Moon Duo come down decidedly more on 2011's Mazes' end of the scale than they do on either Escape or Killing Time from 2010. The guitar pyrotechnics that were so prevalent on the earlier albums were firmly a part of Ripley Johnson's other identity as songwriter and lead guitarist for Wooden Shjips, where sprawling post psych jams are the norm rather than the exception. On Mazes, his guitar playing became a