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TV12

by Circuit Breaker

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1.
Portals 02:59
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The Red Dye 03:22
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Grey Materials 05:05
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Worm7 04:48
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5.
Body 05:02
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Circuit Breaker are an Industrial band, consisting of London based Brothers Peter and Edward Simpson. The Groups return to Tombed Visions with ‘TV12’, marks the label and the duos first ever vinyl release. Taking cues from the likes of Chris & Cosey or Cabaret Voltaire, the Simpson brothers ran amok in a backlog of archived live performances, improvised recordings and the previous mind melting experiments found on their first Tombed Vision’s release ‘Grid’. This material was then used as a catalyst for a newer, tighter song writing process. By mollifying the more esoteric elements and formulating them back into rigid post-punk structures, the sibling’s flirtation with skewered pop music has been brought fully to fore.

Opener Portals has a primal, club-ready shuffle under dissonant, melancholic synth lines. This sense of calm disquiet is ramped up on Grey Materials, a song pregnant with end-time atmos and clunky, mechanical rhythms. Worm 7 is undoubtedly ‘the hit’ of the record, showcasing Peter Simpson’s keening vocals; which paint the
earworming major-key riffage with ironic discontent, a similar approach found on The Red Dye in far more morose colours. Body closes with hammering, reverbed percussion and a dying summer reverie, a fitting end to a game changing EP for the duo.

A majority of the elements making up each track were out-boarded into different synthesizers and effects units; revealing detail and subtlety on repeated listens. It’s a firm mission statement from Circuit Breaker as to what their future work will entail and the strongest song-orientated release for the label yet.

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released March 9, 2014

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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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