Russian Circles - Memorial Artist_富岡多恵子 Tomioka Taeko Arctic Moon is the first

Arctic Moon is the first full-length album by Chameleons since the release of Why Call It Anything

to whom Nagai has been listening since day dot

selling over 1 million copies at the time of its release

as free jazz sax workouts

Includes commentary

Russian Circles - Memorial Artist_富岡多恵子 Tomioka Taeko Arctic Moon is the firstPerhaps the most immediately apparent characteristic of the fifth Russian Circles album, Memorial, is its wide range of emotion. Vacillating from somber yet soaring melodies on one track to pummeling metal heft on the next, Memorial sounds like an album with split personalities. "We've always tried to balance our metal influenced sounds with more nuanced, pretty, orchestral elements," Cook says. "But this time, it's far more polarized in that the