Spore City 

taken from our 4th Album Spore City Survey.

https://circuitbreakerband.bandcamp.com/album/spore-city-survey

'Spore City Survey' is Circuit Breaker's first album in over 4 years. In the interleaving period, each band member pursued solo projects, which effectively divided the constituent components of the band in half. Peter released a trio of EPs focussing on guitar and singing, whilst most notably Edward's Editions Mego released LP 'The Oystercatcher', (under the moniker ELS), reduced his synthesizer compositions down to their most minimal and foreboding modality.

The music contained within the new album simultaneously harks back to earlier releases of the group, with looser, more improvisational song-structures, whilst also hinting at possible new horizons. There is recalibrated instrumentation and a greater focus on instrumental compositions. When the voice does appear, the lyrics are far more opaque than their previous agitprop, but the atmosphere is broadly the same. Despite a new beginning, this is undoubtedly the same group once described by Julian Cope as 'Disturbing and cantankerous… a complete, almost hermetically-sealed worldview of considerable force.'

Spore City

Taken from our 4th Album Spore City Survey.

circuitbreakerband.bandcamp.com/album/spo…ty-survey

'Spore City Survey' is Circuit Breaker's first album in over 4 years. In the interleaving period, each band member pursued solo projects, which effectively divided the constituent components of the band in half. Peter released a trio of EPs focussing on guitar and singing, whilst most notably Edward's Editions Mego released LP 'The Oystercatcher', (under the moniker ELS), reduced his synthesizer compositions down to their most minimal and foreboding modality.

The music contained within the new album simultaneously harks back to earlier releases of the group, with looser, more improvisational song-structures, whilst also hinting at possible new horizons. There is recalibrated instrumentation and a greater focus on instrumental compositions. When the voice does appear, the lyrics are far more opaque than their previous agitprop, but the atmosphere is broadly the same. Despite a new beginning, this is undoubtedly the same group once described by Julian Cope as 'Disturbing and cantankerous… a complete, almost hermetically-sealed worldview of considerable force.'

The Art Clan

https://circuitbreakerband.bandcamp.com/album/i-was-a-weird-sculpture

Anxious Speck

Wyndham Lewis Walk

My Descent Into Capital
Released 6th November
Harbinger Sound
Harbinger 151


Tower

New Track Dec 2015

Mastered By Stephen Bishop 

Assemblage Of Shit

MUTED CONSISTENCIES recoded 27/02/2016 at Instants Chavirés by BEN PAGIER

From European Tour Supporting Consumer Electronics

LIVE at Instants Chavirés - PARIS - 2016

'Grey Materials' performed live @ Cafe Oto, London on 02/04/16. Supporting Consumer Electronics. Photograph by Benny Serneels. http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/photos/circuit-breaker-het-bos-antwerp-belgium-2016/ 

Grey Materials Live At Cafe Oto

"Circuit Breaker are a band split in half. On the one hand, there is the jagged guitar and maudlin singing of Peter Simpson, which slots into the lineage of expansive and gothic punk ala Killing Joke , Bauhaus , Wire ,etc. Pushing against it is the production approach of his brother Edward. Washes of glassy FM Synth melodies are counterbalanced with bursts of electronic harshness, recalling artists such as Autechre & Pan Sonic. “Hands Return To Shake” is the second full length from the London based group and also their second release for longstanding outlier label Harbinger Sound. 

Moving on from the previous record, “My Descent Into Capital”, “Hands Return…” is a much more personal and emotive work. Simultaneously a re-affirmation and a deconstruction of influences, the orthodoxies of minimal-synth and post-punk are stretched and squeezed to breaking point. Circuit Breaker are a band who relish in holding together contradictions. Both a rock band and an electronic act , they have a blunt and direct production approach which, nether-the-less, is full of technical detail. ‘Hands Return To Shake’ will likely win them fans from a vast array of genres, from Industrial-Rock to IDM and everything in-between, providing it is dark, synthetic and angular.”

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