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Aug 19, 2013Many of the best records manage the trick of making the listener feel like they are hearing nothing less than a satisfyingly total and complete sound-world, that for its length no other music could or need exist. The stoned-lava flows and driving inertia of Circumambulation make that trick seem like the easiest one in the world.
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Kerrang!Aug 22, 2013While it's easy enough to pinpoint parallels, True Widow's appeal lies in the manner of their mixing, of the tremendously turbulent with the undeniably immediate. [27 Jul 2013, p.54]
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MagnetAug 16, 2013It might not get the party started, but it'll sure as hell get the freshly converted pilgrims ambling. [No. 101, p.61]
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Alternative PressJul 23, 2013There's a spiraling circularity to Circumambulation that makes the disc feel more like a hypnotic, deathlike hymn than just a bummer stuck on repeat. [Aug 2013, p.92]
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Jul 23, 2013While the album might not reach the heights and depths of True Widow's previous effort, it's a fantastic album in its own right that finds the band tweaking a proven formula rather than just sitting back and making the same album again and again.
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Jul 23, 2013True Widow's newest album, Circumambulation, does a brilliant job of expressing the network of confused and sometimes dark emotions that make us human.
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Jul 23, 2013Circumambulation practically evades any trace of sheen that was found on their two previous efforts. The differences are minimal but not predictable, lying somewhere between sludgy stoner metal and expansive, yet acute rhythmic precision; it’s their ability to never stand on solid ground that elevates their caliginous mid-tempo tunes.
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Aug 2, 2013It comes on slow, seeping into your memory through dusty riffs as expansive as Texas plains.
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Jul 31, 2013There's a weight here that could drag you down if you let it, but mostly this is a band searching for hope amid shattered dreams.
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Aug 8, 2013Here True Widow dispel some of the pot-smoky fog, putting across a crisper, tighter, discernibly quicker sound.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Aug 8, 2013