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Russian Circles Are Back! Listen to “Vorel” From Their Upcoming Album ‘Guidance’
Chicago instrumental rock/metal band Russian Circles have announced they will be releasing a new album titled Guidance on August 5th via Sargent House. If you remember, I was a huge fan of their 2013 album Memorial and their new single “Vorel”, which you can hear below, sounds like a continuation of that musical approach. It’s thick, aggressive, but has beauty lurking within.
The band will also be embarking on Summer and Fall tour dates, with the first leg seeing support from Cloak Room while the second leg will feature Helms Alee (and you damn well better believe I’m going to be at that show).
Pre-orders for Guidance can be found here.
Tour dates:
Jun 16 Vancouver, BC – Levitation Vancouver
Jun 18 Salt Lake City, UT – Crucial Fest
Aug 26 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon *
Aug 27 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center *
Aug 29 Missoula, MT – Palace Lounge *
Aug 30 Seattle, WA – Neumos *
Aug 31 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge *
Sep 2 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *
Sep 3 Los Angeles, CA – The Teragram Ballroom *
Sep 5 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom *
Sep 6 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad *
Sep 7 Englewood, CO – The Gothic Theatre *
Sep 8 Kansas City, MO – The Riot Room *
Sep 9 Chicago, IL – Metro *
Sep 25 Detroit, MI – El Club ^
Sep 26 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace ^
Sep 28 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair ^
Sep 29 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer ^
Sep 30 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw ^
Oct 1 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel ^
Oct 2 Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall ^
Oct 4 Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5 ^
Oct 5 Birmingham, AL – Saturn ^
Oct 6 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon ^
Oct 7 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Studio ^
Oct 8 Austin, TX – Barracuda ^
Oct 9 Dallas, TX – RBC ^
* w/ Cloak Room
^ w/ Helms Alee
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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