Shigeto - Full Circle

1LP Vinyl -  GI-129

Full Circle', the artist’s first full-length album, completes the journey begun with Shigeto’s Semi-Circle EP, synthesizing the drummer/producer’s signature themes of family, continuity, and musical boundary-pushing into a vibrant, fully unified artistic statement. The sounds on Full Circle come from four years of obsessive field recording and collaboration.

As a result of Saginaw’s constant documentation, the songs on Full Circle play like chapters in an ongoing story—as in “Escape from the Incubator”, whose initial rhythmic claustrophobia opens up into a boom-clap nocturnal chase, or “French Kiss Power Up”, whose romantic digital strut gives way to discord and fragmentation as the waves of synthesizer give way to a shaky, neurotic coda.

Full Circle is framed by the “Ann Arbor” diptych, a pair of beat suites named after Saginaw’s hometown (one featuring a sample of Detroit MC SelfSays), all double-thick synths and triple-strength kick drums. Saginaw plays the majority of his rhythms by hand, and Full Circle’s consistently deep pocket is the record’s secret weapon, thumping and breathing like a living being."

Condition:

Media: Mint (M)

Sleeve: Mint (M)

Track List: 

A1. Ann Arbor Part 1 4:07
A2. Escape From The Incubator 3:26
A3. Relentless Drag 4:07
A4. So So Lovely 2:43
A5. Sky Of The Revolution 5:09
B1. Brown Eyed Girl 3:49
B2. French Kiss Power Up 3:47
B3. Ann Arbor Part 2 2:45
B4. Children At Midnight 2:34
B5. Look At All The Smiling Faces 5:02