Russian Circles–Station–Suicide Squeeze Records

"Are circles really different in Russia? Or did that end with the fall of communism? Chicago's Russian Circles aren't telling, comrades. They're instrumental like that. "Harper Lewis" is from the band's Suicide Squeeze debut Station (the follow-up to 2006's Flameshovel-issued Enter), and it's cold and vast like a certain Eurasian nation--or just their local Lake Michigan for a few months around this time each year. Drummer Dave Turncrantz sets a militant tribal groove, while newly recruited bassist Brian Cook (of These Arms Are Snakes) drops anchor with a forbidding, slightly overdriven drone. That lets guitarist Mike Sullivan plot out slow post-rock builds, clicky headphone-panning arpeggios, and thrashing metal chugs overhead..."-Pitchfork

RIYL: Pelican, Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai

Full Album Available Here:
https://www.piratepirate.com/downloads/
http://www.russiancircles.net/
http://www.myspace.com/russiancircles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Circles