Circa Survive - The Amulet (September 22, 2017) Album • Page 84

Circa Survive's Anthony Green: 'The Amulet' Album Is Like Therapy for Us

Just saw this. Not sure if it was posted. Can’t wait for the Thrice tour.

 

I heard A Black Mile and Amulet today. It's been a good day, enjoy the show!

 

Seeing Paramore tonight y'all can find me in the crowd screaming PLAY LUSTRATION

 

Time to rewatch it, almost october :)

 

Is The Amulet the first Circa record he's made completely sober?

 

Nah it wasn't anything like that. Just about which albums you prefer most over the course of thread discussion. Ha

 

Oh shit, guess that is Ken at the end of Lustration after all

 

It’s really growing on me. Probably my third favorite Circa album, which I was not expecting at all. There isn’t a track I don’t like.

 

I hope this grows on me more. I like it, but I don't adore it. My first album with this band was Descensus, and I was floored away by how complex, varied, and grandiose it was. I still remember how Schema through Only The Sun felt like I was in another world the first time I heard the album. The Amulet doesn't tackle the same bases that drew me to this band, at least not yet, but that's okay. It reminds me of BSN and I still consider that a masterful record, so hopefully it clicks more in the future!

 

This doesn’t remind of me BSN at all. Still think that album was this band’s peak. But that’s okay, because this record is so much better than I expected it to be after being pretty underwhelmed after their last 2-3 releases.

 

This doesn't remind me of BSN at all in a good way. I feel like BSN still has some great songs, but some just lose me completely. I am not a fan of Frozen Creek or Spirit in the Stairwell.

 

I've been in this thread too long, I feel like I've heard every opinion ten times.

 

I do actually hear some BSN in here, the best elements, but only glimmers. It's very colorful like BSN was

 

remember that time when circa sang on his guitar really high like a girl?

-2005 YouTube comments on all Circa vids

 

The Amulet might remind me the most of OLG tbh, but with some Violent Waves.

 

What makes At Night It Gets Worse so good? Song has just *something* that makes it a joy to listen to.

 

I want to know why the lyrics in the packaging say "cum" instead of "come" for the chorus :/

 

wait really? "The amethyst will beat into your skull, come pouring out"

gross.

 

the lyrics are super esoteric on this. I was reading them last night. They're really bizarre in a good way.

..... regarding the above, someone take a pic of the lyric sheet lol

 

weirdest word/phrase/wtf is he talking about per song on the new album:

1 tourniquet
2 ambry/ rosary beads
3 the thorn in your paw
4 (this ones not weird)
5 amethyst
6 lidocaine
7 fiending wet nurse writhe
8 i've been seeing extra light
9 garden snake
10 this ghost has been with you all along

 

I had to look up what an ambry is.

 

Pretty sure he was clean on Descensus too.

 

He was clean for every song on that album except for Nesting Dolls. I read somewhere that he was still using when he wrote that song. I think it was in that lengthy Huffington Post story with the band when Anthony came out about using.

 

okay, yea thats a bit weird.. wonder what the meaning of the song is. I literally have no idea on this one