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01. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Soft Talk
02. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Hands Return
03. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Propulsion
04. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Black Springs
05. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Transient Life
06. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Assemblage
07. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Thoughts Return
08. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Possession
09. CIRCUIT BREAKER - Alert
ARTIST
TITLE
Hands Return To Shake
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HARB 178LP HARB 178LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/9/2018

Circuit Breaker is 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 or Pan Sonic. Hands Return To Shake is their second full-length. Moving on from the previous record, My Descent into Capital (HARB 151CD/LP, 2015), Hands Return is a much more personal and emotive work. Simultaneously a reaffirmation and a deconstruction of influences, the orthodoxies of minimal-synth and post-punk are stretched and squeezed to breaking point. Circuit Breaker is 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 is full of technical detail.