The Burning Circle And Then Dust, by Lycia

The Burning Circle And Then Dust

by Lycia

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gloomgazer Lycia has so many great albums, but if it wasn't for this one I might not have ever gotten into them. Otherworldly album. Favorite track: Nine hours later.

José Martins Lycia is one of the greatest bands of all time. Favorite track: Pray.

Channel83Cable12 There's a lushness to this album all its own. Cold is a beautifully distant and bleak masterpiece; Burning Circle..., its sibling, aches inwardly with melancholy, but not quite the same degree. It's always felt to me like a more cathartic work, with hopeful sentiment in Mike's simple refrains like "I still care." Cold has me drifting through ice at a glacially-paced walking meditation, while Burning Circle... is a calm, deep dreaming in a forest. I love both. I love Lycia. Favorite track: Sleepless.

zionengine My favorite Lycia album until "A Line that Connects" happened. This stuff sounds like leaves swirling in cold wind under a full moon. I hope Ikea offers a tabletop shrine for a cherished triple LP. Favorite track: Slip away.

j Lycia's finest hour. Favorite track: Pray.

Mathieu Barbe Lycia's music is stunning, filled with intoxicating mystery. The themes of the album are loneliness, broken heart, repressed memories, betrayal, disillusion but above all it’s an inner transfiguration to a rare form of beauty.This masterwork is like a psychedelic journey into the most secret recesses of the human soul. A dangerous and colorful dream.
Mike VanPortfleet is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Trent Reznor's coffee table in my motorcycle boots and say that !

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	1.	A presence in the woods 04:11
	2.	Wandering Soul 04:45
	3.	The Dust Settles (pt. 1) 01:54
	4.	Sleepless 03:21
	5.	The Dust Settles (pt. 2) 01:32
	6.	The return of Nothing 04:45
	7.	The Dust Settles (pt. 3) 02:57
	8.	Pray 05:19
	9.	The better things to come 04:35
	10.	On the horizon 03:13
	11.	Where has all the time gone 03:16
	12.	Silence and Distance 03:33
	13.	Anywhere but home 03:54
	14.	In the fire and flames 02:15
	15.	Slip away 06:20
	16.	The last day 04:27
	17.	August (pt 1) 04:42
	18.	Nine hours later 04:49
	19.	Nimble 03:45
	20.	August (pt 2) 06:16
	21.	The facade fades 04:12
	22.	Resigned 06:36
	23.	Surrender 04:23
	24.	These memories pass 09:21
	25.	The burning circle 06:27
	26.	The new day 05:54

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The Burning Circle and Then Dust is Lycia’s fourth studio recording, originally released on double CD via Projekt Records in 1995. Save for a small CD re-release in 2006 by Silber Records, the album has never been reissued since. It is hence with great pride that here at Avantgarde Music we officially announce a new edition of one of Lycia’s masterworks from the ‘90s, due out on 2CD as well as triple LP, making this the first Burning Circle vinyl release ever.
Mike VanPortfleet himself commented: “After several years of doing more synth oriented material I wanted a return to my guitar roots (in particular English post punk and 4AD). Lycia started as a guitar based band and I wanted to reaffirm that with disc one, which was originally going to be the release. I was also listening to a lot of shoegaze then, which inspired a return of making the guitars, as opposed to the synths, the focal point of the atmospherics.”.
Many things have been said about the album along the last twentyeight years, and the band chose the following to describe the record.
Per Projekt.com. - The Burning Circle And Then Dust was a groundbreaking point in Lycia’s career. It marked a shift from more atmospheric music towards song-oriented music with tracks like “Pray” & “Slip Away.” It marked the first collaborations between Mike VanPortfleet & Lycia members David Galas & Tara Vanflower. It marked the transformation of Lycia into a honed out live touring machine.
Per Pandamonium Magazine via Projekt.com. - Moving back into more formal song structures, Burning Circle returns to true song-writing, and places equal emphasis on guitar as the electronics. However, the music is as intense and powerful as ever, conjuring up vast vistas of soundscapes which are captured in delicate webs of song and structure. Songs like “Pray” are positively dance friendly, while others find Lycia moving towards the fertile ground of darkpop. breathtaking in scope and beauty, exultant in vision, exhilarating in sensory delight. Lycia have arrived.
Per Ned Raggett of AllMusic - a high point of American dark rock and the band's greatest and most ambitious work.

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