Circuit Breaker is a unique duo from London, where Peter Simpson contributes guitars and vocals that draw comparisons to the gothic punk sounds of the ’80s and his brother Edward brings synth melodies and electronica ideas. It is a formula that is often minimal, abstract, and glitchy in all the best ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cSoft Talk\u201d gets the sophomore album started with all sorts of creative electronica sounds, as a haunting setting of post-punk and synth rock settles in to the buzzing affair. \u201cHands Return To Shake\u201d follows with a similar ominous tone that’s sort of sci-fi influenced and with dark, distant vocals that would satiate any Joy Division fan. <\/p>\n
Side A also offers the meticulous manipulation of \u201cPropulsion,\u201d which builds into a busy display of cautious, yet biting instrumentation with baritone singing and thicker guitars. Meanwhile, \u201cBlack Sprays\u201d offers unusual yet fascinating texturing in the mysterious atmosphere. \u201cTransient Life\u201d ends the first side with three minutes of ambient, soothing sounds, making it the most, dare I say, accessible tune present. <\/p>\n
Side B continues with the same unpredictable approach, as \u201cAssemblege\u201d assembles video game noises into a bleeping meets droning punk highlight, and \u201cThoughts Return\u201d finds the band entering a trance-like delivery that’s all kinds of hazy, dreamy, surreal. At the end, \u201cPossession\u201d switches gears into an almost upbeat tune with bright melodies alongside beats and restrained vocals, and \u201cAlert\u201d exits the record percussively strong and powerful, although musically bare.<\/p>\n
Circuit Breaker can’t decide if they are a post-punk duo or an electronica outfit, and we’re all better off for it, as they split the difference in creative, nostalgic, and charming ways. Self-described as \u201csynthetically enhanced punk,\u201d if bands like Wire, Bauhaus, New Order, or Pan Sonic mean anything to you, then Hands Return To Shake <\/i>should absolutely gain a spot in your collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10436],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45739","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-circuit-breaker","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45739"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}