Songs About Drugs and Dancing

The songs on Songs About Dancing And Drugs are about promises broken and potential squandered, of desperate boredom and revelations of the mundane. It's about coming down and staying down. " Yeah, it's dark. But you can sense Jeremy's finger on the laser's switch. It's right there in the opening song, where hitting bottom cracks open a world of light: This is it, this is ours, here we go."

Circlesquare's music offers a woozy fusion of the electronic, the electric and the acoustic. It's still as slow and sure as a Codeine drip. And as the title suggests, carnal pleasure and out-of-body trips remain Shaw's steadfast reference points. Lead single "Dancers" is the perfect entryway into Circlesquare's lopsided and alluring world. With its drooping guitars and half-speed chug, it feels like dancing with melted bones, illuminated by the world's most lurid disco ball.

It's also an excellent introduction to Circlesquare's expanding sound: while still cloaked in Shaw's prince-of-darkness synths and his unforgettable voice, the music has swollen with the addition of Dave Butterfield's drums and Trevor Larson's guitars, which Shaw has cut up and dubbed out in conjuring Circlesquare's ultimate, (eerily hard to place) sound. It's neither "electronic" nor "rock," really, but a celebration of the recording studio itself.