CIRCLE - ANDEXELT (CD - USED m-/m-)

"Nine tracks of droning, hypnotic neo-Kraut rock from one of our absolute all-time favorite bands. Finland's Circle are the northernmost heirs to the Krautrock tradition, taking basic riffs, stretching and reshaping them, creating bleak, ever-shifting underwater grooves and dizzyingly repetitive rhythms, sounding like an otherworldly This Heat or a more damaged Can. A mesmerizing wall of sound delivered with the sheer force of Loop or Godflesh, but with dark precision and melodic restraint. Mellow, delicate, jazzy passages intersect with crushing Bonham-esque beats. Fans of Salvatore and Tortoise and Mogwai and Trans Am and all other practitioners of epic bombastic hypno-rock or hypnotic math rock should definitely check this Finnish combo's ability to out-post most post-rock bands and out-space most spacerock bands. Includes a bonus 10-minute track and a kick ass secret track not on the original Metamorphos version. (label info)