I did like the lyrics on the older albums better, but these are good enough to not detract from the listen experience, so I can't complain. I hear the vocals first, the lyrics are sort of an afterthought. It's more about the way the words sound together than what they mean together, at least for me.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, Green is a good lyricist in that he has good imagery and its rarely cheesy, but it's all very hard to discern and people sometimes interpret that as deep whereas it's really just vague. Though, that works with the whole Circa Survive vibe.

^^^^ Exactly.

"No vendetta, I just don't suck your dick the way other users do. I also believe that you're a prick that gets picked on all day long at school and your janitorial job at an animal shelter so you act all "cool" on Sputnik to make yourself feel beter about yourself.. It's all good though, you're Sputnik staff man! That's pretty fuckin impressive dude!"

Ouch..
lololol

I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET BACK TO THE CENTER!!
WHAT MADE YOU SO SCARED?

Album Rating: 3.5

Musicianship : Better.









Anthony Green : Same shit he's been doing for 10 fucking years. Great review but I whole-heartedly disagree. Old Saosin > TSOAF > Circa. They just aren't that good and the only evolution they ever bring to the table is lost amidst the rampant Anthony Green Fan--boy'ism.

Album Rating: 2.0

Tsoaf suck complete balls.

Album Rating: 4.5

@ jimmyisjonny. Well, i think that, not unlike avant guard poetry, the meanings of the songs are not that obvious. For example, i interpreted the song "the glorious nosebleed" as two different themes in the same song. One aspect is about a cocaine addiction; the other is about somebody jumping off of a building. How so? "forced feeding you lines" (addiction, can't stop doing lines; and maybe somebody who's making "jumper" depressed). "look how high i'm jumping from, you'll never make it" and "this sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact" (his high and crashing; and obviously somebody jumping). "calcium waste, litter and falling like icicles" (blood has calcium - nosebleed from coke; and nosebleed from being up high. Also, bones have calcium and if they're falling like icicles, what does that remind you of). I don't think that all of these things are just vague generalizations that coincidentally point towards these themes. And besides, what forms of art aren't over-analyzed? (think Shakespeare, haha ;D) and yes, i did make an account just to comment on this new album :P

Nah tsoaf was awesome. Circa > Translating the Name > tsoaf, but it's all great.

Album Rating: 2.0

I don't see why people think Saosin was good either, average pop-punk imo. Circa is just a great band and I plan to get this soon. Tsoaf was seriously a bunch of songs that had no flow and lacked structure.



On Letting Go> everything else said here.



or at least until I give this a spin.

Album Rating: 3.5

Sure, some of TSOAF's stuff lacked structure but that was the fucking point. Tiger and the Duke was brilliant in that the musicians never recorded together and still produced the level of musicianship that they did. Sure, Lover the Lord Has Left Us was a pretentious mess, it's Anthony Green for fucks sake trying to be experimental, but Tiger and the Duke and The Ocean and the Sun were both great albums. Circa Survive just sounds like what Saosin would've become if Anthony hadn't left but with a much, much less talented drummer.

Album Rating: 2.0

No because Saosins mucisianship sucked hard. Sure Circa's drummer isn't super technical but he doesn't have to be, listen to Kicking Your Crosses down, the drumming fits the music perfectly.

Album Rating: 4.5

TSOAF is good but this is by far better than anything past T&D. And even then this is probably better, and it's not just 4 songs.

Album Rating: 3.5

Pat Mcgrath is a fucking kick-ass drummer, I don't think you know what you're talking about. I never said anything about the rest of the musicians.

Album Rating: 2.0

Pat McGrath is a good drummer okay. Circa is still better.

Album Rating: 3.5

Agree to Disagree. I'm not the biggest fan of either really, but Translating the Name definitely

turned a whole shit load of people onto a genre of music they wouldn't have given a second thought

otherwise which I think is why people expect (and believe they get) the world from Anthony Green every

time he does something. It's just meh, but on the upside of meh. I do really like the guitar work here

though.

Album Rating: 4.5

All the fanboys thought they got the world from AG. I'm pretty sure most people rating this highly thought at least one of their other albums was pretty boring.

Album Rating: 4.0

imo tsoaf makes brilliantly crafted music in a godly way.



i agree sometimes Circa's lyrics are madly vague, i think they make sense to green though. i've only looked at the lyrics for strange terrain carefully, and they are very meaningful on the level of cultural commentary. its hard to say exactly whats inside his head influencing the lyrics though, drugs or a frustration with society, maybe both.

k this rules

Album Rating: 4.5

Think I'm finally going to rate.