Hands Return To Shake, by Circuit Breaker

Hands Return To Shake

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1.	Soft talk 03:51	buy track
2.	Hands Return 03:32	buy track
3.	Propulsion 04:49	buy track
4.	Black Sprays 04:05	buy track
5.	Transient Life 03:09	buy track
6.	Assemblege 03:16	buy track
7.	Thoughts Return 02:36	buy track
8.	Possesion 04:56	buy track
9.	Alert 03:50	buy track

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Circuit Breaker are a band split in half. On the one hand you have the jagged guitar and maudlin vocals of Peter Simpson, slotting into the lineage of expansive and gothic punk a la Killing Joke, Bauhaus, Wire, etc. On the other you have the contrastive production approach of his brother Edward, whose washes of glassy FM Synth melodies are counterbalanced with bursts of electronic harshness recalling artists such as Autechre & Pan Sonic.
‘Hands Return To Shake’ is the second full length from the London based group. It is also the second release from them for longstanding avant-punk label Harbinger Sound. Moving on from the previous record, ‘My Descent Into Capital’, ‘Hands Return…’ is a much more personal and emotive work. The orthodoxies of minimal synth and post punk are stretched and squeezed to breaking point in both a reaffirmation and a deconstruction of the duo’s many influences.
Embodying a fluid eclecticism that ties together industrial, minimal synth, post-punk, abstract electronic music and everything in between, ‘Hands Return To Shake’ is their finest work yet, a record marked by inspiration and their own increasingly elusive and individual direction.

Circuit Breaker are a band who relish in holding together contradictions. Both a rock band and an electronic act they have a blunt and direct production approach which nevertheless is full of technical detail. To date they have released two LPs on Harbinger Sound (‘My Descent Into Capital’, ‘Hands Return To Shake’) and have made a series of appearances on Manchester-based experimental imprint Tombed Vision Records (‘Grid’ and ‘TV12’) They have toured prolifically across the U.K and Europe with acts including Sleaford Mods, Sudden Infant, Consumer Electronics and Russell Haswell, as well as having recently supported artists such as Martin Rev, Ice Age and Uniform.

HARBINGER SOUND 2018

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released January 19, 2018

Music by Edward and Peter Simpson
Mastered by Stephen Bishop

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London duo Circuit Breaker are made up of brothers Edward and Peter Simpson. Their music is a synthetically enhanced post-punk , reminiscent of dark-wave and industrial-rock but filtered through a lens of textural, glitchy electronica.

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