Geneva
- Russian Circles
- Band Name: Russian Circles
- Record Label: Suicide Squeeze
- Release Date: Oct 20, 2009
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While it may seem as if Geneva is all over the musical map, the opposite is acually true--the map's just been redrawn. [Nov 2009, p.114]
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90Russian Circles, with their instruments well-used and dynamic, leaders in their own right, guide the listener through the varying courses of each song with nary a misstep.
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Geneva blossoms into an evocative, inspiring album.
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Like many of the tracks contained therein, Geneva ends up far from where it began. But this is not a record defined by where it starts and where it finishes--it's what there is to take in on the way that counts.
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If you weren't already on the Russian Circles bandwagon, this is the perfect opportunity to jump on.
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By letting their music do all the talking, Russian Circles have told the story of their personal growth entirely in song, and it's a growth that involves all the melodic intricacy and inventive theme-and-variation play that their contemporaries have had much greater difficulty overcoming.
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78Geneva's a record with dirt underneath its fingernails and resolute urgency at its heart, and like the place from which it hails, it's worth the bluster.
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Russian Circles returns with this album of sprawling instrumental songs that vacillate between churning heavy riffage and redemptive passages. [Fall 2009, p.72]
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Chicago instrumentalists Russian Circles arrive at neutral ground with Geneva.
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Ultimately, Russian Circles pummel too politely.
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