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Circus Trees Emerges From Latest Chrysalis With Emotive, Earnest This makes me sad, and I miss you

Listening to any new Circus Trees is akin to witnessing a sort of chrysalis on the regular. And that’s not to say that the core of the Marlborough outfit is really changing either. It’s more that, despite the heavy content of their songs to match the heavy nature of their sound, the band keep sonically expanding and encapsulating more textures to their already impressive musical palette. And that’s why fans are compelled to come back over and over again so while we might be saying that new record This makes me sad, and I miss you is thier best yet right now we absolutely know that their next will top this. And it’s why we, like so many others, will keep tuning in.

And yeah, This makes me sad, and I miss you is definitely Circus Trees’ best to date.

“More Than You Could Ask For” is sonic serenity and a testament to the storytelling through song capabilities that the family McCarthy has developed over the years and If this is your first exposure to the band, if you’ve never heard the heavy stuff, then we couldn’t think of a better beginning to your new, burgeoning relationship with the MA outfit (But as an aside, what took you so long???) “Getting Old” saunters in next and, honestly, it’s another revelation. Is this the same band that crafted the Indie Shoegaze brilliance that is “Impermanence” that we fell in love with back in 2018? The same that put out the absolutely emotive aural excursion that is last year’s “Save Yourself” (Which makes an appearance midway through This makes me sad…) while also taking part in O’Brien’s annual Grub, Sweat, & Beers with its’ celebration of heaviness?? Why yes, yes it is. And the aptly titled “Getting Old” is just a reflection of how the songwriting prowess has progressed throughout this glistening gem conveyed as a kind of dream state before a series of pointed aural assaults which blossoms into a grand finale.

Vocalist/Guitarist Finola McCarthy sounds as effervescent as ever with Bassist Edmee McCarthy steadily supplying the cathartic yet still crushing low end cushion as drummer (And additional guitarist) Eoghan McCarthy rounds out the rhythm section with steady sticks to support the stringed solidarity. Finola’s voice is especially illuminating on “Negative Feedback” (And throughout This makes me sad…) becoming both emotive yet unrelenting in its’ earnestness with “Alone” a veritable anthem with the way the family McCarthy’s instruments converge into one driving force as Finola commands the mic.

Deeper in, “Trap Door” comes out of left field with a bombastic beginning while “I’m A Person Too” adds a little twang to the Circus Trees Shoegaze mastery before eventually capping off the record with “How Strong Can You Last” which serves as the perfect bookend to opener “More Than You Could Ask For” as this sprawling haunting epic closes out their latest full-length

This makes me sad, and I miss you is out now through Five By Two Records. You can cop a copy by heading here, here, or to the stream below. For more from Circus Trees, follow them across the information superhighway by clicking here, here, or here.

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