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A
Perfect Circle : Mer De Noms
Rush, the
mid-seventies titans of stun-gun hard rock and songs about forest
gnomes, must have been a formative influence on Billy Howerdel. A
guitar tech for Tool, Howerdel began his own group, A Perfect
Circle, as a labor of love and a vehicle for writing theatrical
instrumental rock for weird imaginary movies. Then the guitarist
shortened the songs, imagining them as diva turns. Enter Tool's
occasionally dress-wearing singer, Maynard James Keenan, who added
an almost operatic angst to Howerdel's songs and who characterizes
A Perfect Circle as "a right-brain, feminine result."
Eccentric, melodramatic and perpetually yearning for transcendence
of some sort, Keenan blesses the strafing, Smashing
Pumpkins-damaged riffage of "Judith" with biblical
references, including lyrics like, "He did it all for
you." Howerdel's trippy atmospherics are compelling in a
corny sort of way, and Keenan's howling, swooning style must be an
antidote for any boy feeling guilty about being part of the
patriarchy. But when the singer is wailing to his audience that he
can "heal you" (in the roiling rock fairy tale,
"Sleeping Beauty") and the songs rise and fall like the
dusty curtain in a high school auditorium, A Perfect Circle return
us to the daze of prog rock. Still, Genesis, Emerson, Lake and
Palmer, and even Rush, silly as they were, engaged in an
innovative reimagining of what rock music could be. A Perfect
Circle sound like a desperate dream of what rock used to be. Maybe
that's the point. (RS 842)
PAT
BLASHILL
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Tracklisting
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1. |
The
Hollow |
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2. |
Magdalena
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3. |
Rose
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4. |
Judith
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5. |
Orestes
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6. |
3
Libras |
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7. |
Sleeping
Beauty |
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8. |
Thomas
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9. |
Renholder
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10. |
Thinking
Of You |
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11. |
Brena
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12. |
Over
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