#circuit des yeux

[jacobwren]

Circuit des Yeux - "Truth" 

[knightofleo]

Circuit des Yeux | Megaloner

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[jgthirlwell]

04.19.25 Circuit Des Yeux at Public Records Brooklyn

[aifol]

Circuit des yeux - God dick

[musicollage]

Circuit Des Yeux – -io. 2021 : Matador.

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[sinceileftyoublog]

Circuit des Yeux, FACS, Kinsella & Pulse, LLC Live Show Review: 4/17, Thalia Hall, Chicago

Circuit des Yeux

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Last Thursday at Thalia Hall served as an unofficial showcase of Chicago's strong art rock music scene. Circuit des Yeux (the project of vocalist, composer, and singer-songwriter Haley Fohr), minimalist post-punk trio FACS, and Kinsella & Pulse, LLC (husband-and-wife duo of Midwest emo legend Tim Kinsella and musician/singer/producer Jenny Pulse) were celebrating great new records, and the coincidences didn't stop there. You could create a Venn diagram among Halo on the Inside (Matador), Wish Defense (Trouble in Mind), and Open ing Night (Kill Rock Stars). The CdY and FACS albums concern internal and external senses of the self. The FACS and Kinsella & Pulse, LLC releases explore how fraying identities can lead to political apathy in 2025. On Halo and Open ing Night, Circuit des Yeux and K&P, LLC respectively imagine parallel universes where the club hosts the ultimate battle between light and dark. At the center of all three is an openness to reinvention.

Persona is an upfront, yet underappreciated aspect of Fohr's artistry. Yes, she releases albums under alternate moniker Jackie Lynn, but her musical and visual aesthetic changes from record to record. The blue-hued world of Reaching for Indigo dived into the reflective depths of experimental folk. The bright red orchestral maximalism of -io represented an attempt to heal raw wounds. On Halo in the Inside, Fohr turned night into day, working alone in her basement, painting from a Pan-inspired canvas on synthesizer and finishing the album with producer Andrew Broder in Minneapolis. The result is a collection of dance and goth tunes, some of her catchiest to date. On Thursday, Fohr's shapeshifting voice, backed by Low's Alan Sparhawk (guitar), Andrew Scott Young (bass), and Drew Christopherson (drums) seamlessly summoned Halo on the Inside. "Canopy of Eden" was an immediate highlight, a pulsating bass and skittering percussion carrying Fohr and her declarations like a queen on a carpet: "I can make a radio break," and, "I am a trumpet and I have arrived." "Skeleton Key", on the other hand, was variable in volume and tempo, quiet and glitchy into titanic and screaming, Fohr exhibiting both extreme ends of her four octaves.

As a longtime Circuit des Yeux fan, I was happy to hear back catalog favorites like -io's "Dogma" and an epic encore performance of Reaching for Indigo classic "Black Fly". But perhaps no song was more affecting than Halo's instrumental closer and Thursday main set closer "It Takes My Pain Away". The mournful, layered drones made me feel like I was in the middle of an ocean, staring at infinite blackness, no choice but to get lost in my own thoughts. As Fohr sings, "Truth is just imagination of the mind," an idea at first terrifying yet eventually, something in which to take solace.

FACS

Brian Case

For FACS, Wish Defense is a return in some ways, a shift in others. Original band member Jonathan Van Herik came back to replace Alianna Kalaba on bass, which also marked a departure from the instrumentation lineup on predecessor Disappears (where Brian Case was on bass and Van Herik guitar). Feeling reinvigorated by the lineup change but wanting to call back at the same time, FACS made a record that both sounds and looks like 2018's Negative Houses (both records' album art seem to invert each other). However, Wish Defense is exemplary of FACS: the guitars clang and chime, the bass creeps, the drums incessantly repeat or build, all that much more. Notably, it's the final album recorded by Steve Albini before his shocking death last year. Yet, as much as Wish Defense benefits from Albini's presence (and John Congleton's commendable finishing job), its true strength lies in its urgency and desperation, which shined on Thursday. The spindly harmonics of "A Room" segued into the distortion of "Ordinary Voices", Noah Leger alternating between a steady thump and a forward-marching chug. The jagged title track and explosive "Desire Path" proved to be live anthems, the crowd identifying with a dissociating Case as he wailed over and over, "I'm not here!" and, "Are you real?"

Noah Leger

FACS

The best songs on Wish Defense are its final two, and FACS smartly saved them for last during their set, albeit in reverse order. On the album, the call-to-action "Sometimes Only" is dulled by "You Future"'s FACS-ian ennui. Live, the set closed on a hopeful note. Don't get me wrong: "You Future" has the finest verse Case has ever put to paper. ("Are you the same as you were? / Erratic / Sentimental / Eyes the size of an American mile / Youth is a thrill / Then it's over.") But "Sometimes Only" is the timely song we need right now. "In a passion era / From a broken state / What shape is the dark? / And what shape is the hate?" Case asks, then answering his own question, "In a passive era / From a broken state / They made you choose / Choose a side." The line is borderline righteous, and watching the sometimes stoic band blast through it, Van Herik bending backwards as he played like he was in a metal band, thrilled the audience looking for any excuse to avoid despondence.

Case

FACS

FACS

Van Herik

Kinsella & Pulse, LLC

Jenny Pulse

Open ing Night, meanwhile, is the most cohesive statement yet from Tim Kinsella & Jenny Pulse, no matter what name they're recording as. They workshopped its songs live and recorded half of it in one take, before rearranging the songs to be performed as a duo and hoping to capture the trademark drum sound of--who else?--Albini, with Bitchin Bajas' Cooper Crain at Electrical Audio. (Crain also plays the cowbell on the scratchy "Watch and See".) Per usual for K&P, the tunes are adventurous and varied, combining elements of R&B, post-hardcore, and pop. Live, they started with dancey Gimme Altamont opener "Blindfold" followed by the shuffling "Immanence", replete with Pulse's soulful coo and Kinsella's sharp licks. It was with the journeying "Love", though, that their set gained momentum. The track began simply enough, with consistent drum samples and a humming synth, creating a drone bed below Kinsella's guitars. Pulse's vocal turn then transformed the song into a plea to "let us love," as she softly repeated the song's title. On the album, the song has a sort of grey skies, Stories from the City-era PJ Harvey vibe, yet live, the duo leaned into the propulsive chaos, as it entered its closing, garbled dance phase.

Kinsella & Pulse, LLC

Kinsella & Pulse, LLC

After Kinsella & Pulse, LLC played the bluesy "Sally", Kinsella, in a rare move, interrupted their set. "We have to be at O'Hare at 9 A.M., and we'll be gone for two months," he set, referring to the band's European tour opening for Karate. "I'm losing my mind pretending everything is normal. I hope you all go to the protest Saturday." He mentioned the words to a slightly cheering, still majority silent crowd, who probably just didn't hear him. "We'll all get the tyranny we allow," he said before the band closed with the gentle, wonderfully chintzy "Cracked Factory Wall". Sure, the comment may have been an ideal introduction to K&P, LLC performing the Pulse-led "Brutal, The Way You Like", delivered from the perspective of an American aristocrat who becomes a refugee. Mostly, I was thinking about how their set--and, as would be clear, all of the bands' sets--emphasized the importance of finding one's purpose, within and as it relates to others, whether during times of peace or times of turmoil. Circuit des Yeux surfaces the human capacity to be "the butterfly and the beast." FACS requests you weigh both. Kinsella & Pulse, LLC choose to "laugh at the fascists," those who embody the beast without any parts of the butterfly. What about you?

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[megaherbs]

It's only April, I know, but I've been listening to this non stop since it came out last month and it's clear to me that this is song of the year.

[jacobwren]

Circuit des Yeux - "Canopy of Eden"

[puddleheaart]

i’ve heard this song many times but i’ve only listened to it today. i love the instrumentation on this so much

[pump-up-the-jams]

Halo on the Inside - Circuit des Yeux

Less industrial than I wanted but way more art pop than I expected, so all around pretty good. Will listen again