Circa Survive is back to explore brand new territory with their sixth full-length, The Amulet, due out September 22nd via Hopeless Records. To celebrate the album’s announcement, the band has shared their imaginative new music video for its first single, “Lustration.” Watch the video now below!
“Lustration” and its accompanying visual are perfect examples of Circa Survive‘s ability to blend massively ambitious sounds and ideas with an immediacy rarely found in music this unabashedly progressive. In 2017, when unconventional guitar music has been somewhat relegated back to the underground, Circa Survive still trades in big intricate riffs and even bigger concepts, daring to find the balance between grand scope and accessibility.
Preorders for The Amulet are available now!
Circa Survive will be hitting the ground running with a lengthy U.S. tour in support of The Amulet. The band will be joined by AFI and Citizen, with shows starting this week. See full itinerary below.
The Amulet finds vocalist Anthony Green taking a dynamic approach to his penchant for high concepts. The album revolves around parallels between immense and cataclysmic themes like the ending of the world or our turbulent political climate, and the highly intimate struggles of interpersonal relationships. This dichotomy of scale finds common ground in the idea that only although facing hard truths head on can be painful, it’s the only way to reach any kind of catharsis.
Green elaborated saying, “When we were writing ‘Lustration’ there was an immediate feeling that it needed to be the first song on the album and the first song that people heard. It centers the album around the themes of life, death, and rebirth, and we wanted the video and artwork to carry that theme as well. The band has changed a lot, our personal lives have changed a lot, and the video sort of symbolizes those changes you go through—as a band, as a person, in relationships—that necessary struggle you experience when you’re trying to embrace something new.”
Tour Dates:
07/14 Columbus, OH @ Express Live! Indoor Pavilion *
07/15 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore *
07/16 Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club
07/18 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle *
07/19 Nashville, TN @ War Memorial Auditorium *
07/21 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
07/22 Memphis, TN @ Growlers
07/24 Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom *
07/25 Papillion, NE @ Samtur Amphitheater *
07/27 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
07/28 Salt Lake City, UT @ Saltair
07/29 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl *
08/01 San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre *
08/02 Paso Robles, CA @ Vina Robles Amphitheatre *
08/04 Troutdale, OR @ McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater *
08/05 Seattle, WA @ The Paramount Theatre *
08/07 Billings, MT @ Pub Station
08/09 Fargo, ND @ Sanctuary Events Center
08/10 Sioux Falls, SD @ Icon Lounge
08/12 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme
* w/ AFI