Earlier this month when I posted other songs off this new Circulatory System album, I said, and I quote, "There are songs on this album---The Spinning Continuous sounds like a real song, maybe even an Olivia Tremor Control song, and it's fucking awesome and I'm an asshole for not posting it here."
So, I decided that I owed it to you, whoever you are, to post one of the good songs on this album. Though now that I'm listening to it with earbuds in the middle of the library it feels really overwhelming, like my fucking head is going to explode.
I like this song mainly for the part (the whole middle section really) where WCH sings "do you think we can lift the shadow, do you think, do you think, do you think, do you think at all". Probably my favorite moment on the whole album.
What in the hell is this song about? Will Cullen Hart, are you out there? Can you hear me? Do you know that I love you? Do you know that I have shed tears, mental tears in my head, over the fact that there has not been a second Circulatory System album?
Oh my god! It says the new Circulatory System album is supposed to come out in August! Did you hear that? I just came in my pants.
For those not in the know, Olivia Tremor Control (featured previously on the site) was primarily the word of two dudes, Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss. Wikipedia says this now but I used to spout it as original knowledge that I came up with all on my own: their strengths were balanced perfectly in Olivia Tremor Control, kind of like how Lennon & McCartney's combined influences created some of the best music ever, Hart's taste for sonic experimentation and abstract art was balanced by Doss' thirst for good pop hooks and melodies and a general 70's-era Beatles-esque sound.
When Olivia Tremor Control broke up, Doss went on to form The Sunshine Fix, with a heavy influence on happy pop Beatles-esque sound music. Hart went on to form Circulatory System, where he was able to construct all the abstract weird experimental psychedelia that he wanted. Is it perfect? No, because Olivia Tremor Control was perfection (at least for all of Dusk at Cubist Castle and for 70% of Black Foliage) and without Doss around to manage Hart's more elaborate experimentation, things get kind of out of hand, kind of like how 80% of this album is largely unlistenable out of context.
As it stands though, Will Cullen Hart is one of those musical geniuses, like Jeff Magnum (of Neutral Milk Hotel, and if you didn't recognize the name "Jeff Magnum" until I said "of Neutral Milk Hotel" then you should get off my website), who constructs beautiful music that isn't necessarily accessible but upon repeated listens you can start to appreciate how truly inspired they are as artists. It's no surprise then that Jeff Magnum himself worked on this album (as well as some of Olivia Tremor Control's early work). All those Elephant 6 Collective guys sure do like to fiddle with each other's things.
"We are often symbols, definitions, tables, hardware in a circular time," is the catchiest chorus of any song ever that doesn't make any sense at all.
OH MY GOD THE NEW ALBUM HAS LEAKED I COULD BE DOWNLOADING IT AND LISTENING TO IT RIGHT NOW OMFG OMFG OMFG.