Circle X (officially untitled[1]) is an EP and the debut release by American experimental rock band Circle X. It was on 12" vinyl in 1980 in France, through then-nascent record label Celluloid.[1]
Background
CMJ described the album as a "raw, alien, dense set of four tuneless almost-not-even-songs made of spattered guitar, drums and Tony Pinotti's wrecked, howling voice".[2]
Track listing
Side A
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Tender"
2:34
2.
"Albeit Living"
2:30
Side B
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Onward Christian Soldiers"
3:34
2.
"Underworld"
2:54
Critical reception
Trouser Press opined that the EP was "practically unmatched in its day. [...] Nothing sounded like this in 1979. Circle X caught the tail end of the no wave scene and out-waved it with a mere four ear-splitting compositions."[3]
Re-issues
Circle X was later re-issued on CD in 1996 through label Dexter's Cigar. It was re-issued on 12" vinyl in Germany in 2009 through label Insolito.
