Memorial Russian Circles SKU: SH111LP Barcode: 0634457623613 24.00 £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sargent House Released Date: 27th May 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Perhaps the most immediately apparent characteristic of the fifth Russian Circles album, Memorial is its wide range of emotion. Vacillating from somber-yet-soaring melodies on one track to pummeling metal heft on the next, Memorial sounds like an album with split personalities. “We’ve always tried to balance our metal-influenced sounds with more nuanced, pretty, orchestral elements,” Cook says. “But this time, it’s far more polarized in that the heavy parts are much more blown out and exaggerated while the pretty moments are far more restrained, delicate, and atmospheric.” In the two years since Russian Circles released their landmark fourth album Empros, the Chicago trio toured worldwide nearly incessantly, encountering many heavy acts whose music seemed needlessly complicated. “We set out to make a straightforward, intense, heavy record,” Cook explains. “We subconsciously gravitated toward darker and more somber sounds. We wanted to get away from the overtly flashy.” In search of such a streamlined sound, the trio focused on each individual song having its own emotional and musical characteristics. As such, Memorial almost feels like stages of grief. That notion might be aided by 1) the album’s clever structuring, in which it ends in the same place as it starts, and 2) special guest vocalist Chelsea Wolfe lending her hauntingly somber vocals to the album closing title track. To a degree, the monolithic, juxtaposed moods on Memorial is the band’s reaction to the proliferation of iPod culture affecting how bands write music. Today, most musicians are trying to mash together disparate elements with results sounding as unpalatable as cooking a meal blindfolded. Russian Circles wisely and deftly sidestep the trappings of genre amalgamation. “I want to hear a band with a broad palette,” Cook says. “But it should find that weird balance with breadth and width. We wanted to make a record with more extreme peaks and valleys. I’m hoping that we can get away with making a schizophrenic record.” Artist Russian Circles Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Sargent House Buying Options 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Memoriam Deficit 1777 Cheyenne Burial Ethel Lebaron Memorial (Featuring Chelsea Wolfe) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Russian Circles View Product Quick View Russian Circles Station (15th Anniversary Re-issue) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sargent House | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th July 2023 £26.00 - £28.00 Select options Russian Circles Station (15th Anniversary Re-issue) £26.00 - £28.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sargent House Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th July 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Russian Circles Gnosis Rock And Pop | Sargent House | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 19th August 2022 £25.00 - £27.00 Select options Russian Circles Gnosis £25.00 - £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sargent House Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th August 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Russian Circles Blood Year Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sargent House | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 2nd August 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Russian Circles Blood Year £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sargent House SKU: SH215LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 2nd August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Russian Circles Guidance Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sargent House | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 1st April 2022 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Russian Circles Guidance £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sargent House SKU: SH159LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Russian Circles Empros Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Sargent House | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 23rd August 2024 £26.00 - £28.00 Select options Russian Circles Empros £26.00 - £28.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Sargent House Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 23rd August 2024 Read More Select options See more from Russian Circles Start again More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Turnover Myself In The Way Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Run For Cover Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th November 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Turnover Myself In The Way £24.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Run For Cover Records SKU: RFC251LPC8 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Idles A Beautiful Thing: IDLES Live at Le Bataclan LP (Neon Clear Orange Vinyl) Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Partisan Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 6th December 2019 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Idles A Beautiful Thing: IDLES Live at Le Bataclan LP (Neon Clear Orange Vinyl) £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Partisan Records SKU: PTKF2174-1 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 6th December 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine 1992: The Love Album Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Chrysalis | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 19th January 2024 £29.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine 1992: The Love Album £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Chrysalis SKU: CRV1946 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 19th January 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Walter Schreifels An Open Letter To The Scene Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Run For Cover Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 12th September 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Walter Schreifels An Open Letter To The Scene £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Run For Cover Records SKU: 0811774025324 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hydromatics, The Parts Unknown Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bang! | 1LP Released 31st May 2024 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hydromatics, The Parts Unknown £28.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bang! 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