The Advisory Circle - Full Circle

Full Circle

The Advisory Circle

Formats Tracks Price Buy
10" Vinyl Album 16 tracks £16.50
CD Album 16 tracks £10.00 Out of stock
Download Album (FLAC) 16 tracks £7.99
Download Album (MP3) 16 tracks £7.99
Download individual tracks From £0.99
More tracks

Description

The Advisory Circle - Full Circle



Full Circle is the sixth album by long time Ghost Box roster member, The Advisory Circle. Self-avowed synaesthesiac, Cate Brooks conjures a very visual fantasy in four acts (the vinyl version across four sides of a luxurious gatefold double 10”). Her tracks evoke human dramas played out against the timeless backdrop of a utopian built environment, where leisure, luxury, elegance and romance are always in fashion.



Brooks’ music is by turns ambient, dramatic, upbeat & melancholic. It’s instrumental electronica of the very highest calibre, an expert and masterly manipulation of electronic equipment both old and new. Light touches of acoustic and electric instrumentation and flourishes of both tape and digital sound manipulation add colour throughout. The album wears its influences and sonic components proudly, but feels contemporary, cool and fresh. Brooks’ music career predates and now transcends the world of hauntological electronica that it originally inspired.


Designed by Julian House, the vinyl LP version comes on double 10” packaged in a beautiful gatefold sleeve, with a free download card. The CD version is designed as a miniature replica of the gatefold vinyl.

Reviews

...Brooks has gone back to basics. The synths are starker, the tape hiss darker. ‘Time Immemorial' is clearly the theme to some long-lost BBC Two science show, Just A Dream feels perfect for a hard-hitting documentary about glue-sniffing. And the upbeat melodies of The Architecture' suggest the heart-breaking optimism of 1980s out-of-town retail parks.
It's an album of double-edged nostalgia for both her own fractured childhood memories and the label's inaugural experiments, and Brooks knack of investing melodic electronica with affectingly raw emotion remains unparalleled.
Electronic Sound

Brooks' productions are more refined, with a diamond-sharp clarity... Homely music for overactive, bittersweet imaginations.
UNCUT

Chock full of the synth harmonies that so deftly typify The Advisory Circle, it incorporates a musical vision and narrative that places the synaesthesiac Brooks above most of her contemporaries... this is a joyous and multisensory expolration of sound.
SHINDIG

Tracklisting

10" Vinyl Album (GBX042 LP)
    1. Full Circle
    2. Wait Hear Now
    3. Time Immemorial
    4. Autres Voix
    5. Russian Doll
    6. Blueprint
    7. Recovery Process
    8. Just a Dream
    1. Fit for Purpose
    2. Away Days
    3. Inner Activity
    4. Situation One
    5. The Architecture
    6. Sky Court
    7. The Luxury Spectrum
    8. Full Circle Logotone
CD Album (GBX042 CD)
  1. Full Circle
  2. Wait Hear Now
  3. Time Immemorial
  4. Autres Voix
  5. Russian Doll
  6. Blueprint
  7. Recovery Process
  8. Just a Dream
  9. Fit for Purpose
  10. Away Days
  11. Inner Activity
  12. Situation One
  13. The Architecture
  14. Sky Court
  15. The Luxury Spectrum
  16. Full Circle Logotone
Download Album (GBX042 DL)
  1. Full Circle
  2. Wait Hear Now
  3. Time Immemorial
  4. Autres Voix
  5. Russian Doll
  6. Blueprint
  7. Recovery Process
  8. Just a Dream
  9. Fit for Purpose
  10. Away Days
  11. Inner Activity
  12. Situation One
  13. The Architecture
  14. Sky Court
  15. The Luxury Spectrum
  16. Full Circle Logotone