Circle Takes the Square won't be releasing their new album, Decompositions: Vol. 1, until November, but the band will release the Rites of Initiation Digital EP on August 23rd via their own Gatepost Recordings. Co-vocalist and guitarist, Drew Speziale had this to say about the first chapter of Decompositions: Vol. 1:
“We have spent vast amounts of time exploring every fractal peak and recursive valley in the landscape that these songs describe, and we are eager to provide our listeners with the opportunity to glimpse a portion of this realm, and to immerse themselves in the labyrinth of startling curves and staggering depths that we've been lost within for so long. Rites of Initiation documents the ill-lit, inward-leading, forever-winding pathways that eventually take hold, on a search for the authentic in an increasingly artificial world. When the boundaries between thinking and knowing, dreaming and waking, living and dying all begin to blur, a terrifyingly primal vision begins to bleed through the fragile veil of consensus perception. To surrender to it, embracing the other side is our “rite of passage.” We've crafted these songs in an attempt to sing that Transition into being.”
Rites of Initiation Track Listing:I. Enter By The Narrow Gates
II. Spirit Narrative
III. Way of Ever-Branching Paths
IV. The Ancestral Other Side
