In Our Circle

Album , CD - LP / VINYL + MP3 / Digital
TAL106 — 2018


    ’In Our Circle’ dwells heavy in a contemporary American psyche. Rare is the news that doesn’t feel worse than the day before. If we’re currently in the Autumn of the American Era, then ’In Our Circle’ sits out there in late November in a first snow made of ash. And this is from a band who once called an album We’re Fucked. But the hounds of time are really nipping at our heels now. “Another dark day, another dark day, another dark day, another dark day", Nathan Amundson quivers in his lovely, breathy tenor over a slo(ooo)w shuffling strum and a striking lap steel. Coming at the album’s midpoint, one might see this as Rivulets waving the white flag halfway through. But there’s a comfort in these blues, some sort of communal sadness in the dark. If the dad in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road had a guitar in his grocery cart, these would be the last songs he played before he used the guitar for campfire kindling.

    You’ll find fuzzed out Neil Young and Crazy Horse anthems (“Not Today,” “You Can Never Come Back”) and spaced-out folk miniatures that sound like they could be early demos from Automatic for the People (“Won’t Be Long Now,” “Wire”). But by the time you reach standout, closing number “Lucky“, you’ll surely be moved. “Lucky” comes very close to defying the sentiment of all that came before it on In Our Circle. “And I’m thankful you still put up with me”, Amundson keens only to deliver the 2nd part of the couplet. “And I’m lucky, I’m so lucky, that it’s a dream". It’s a profound moment on the record, one that underscores the sort of soulful nihilism that haunts it’s every corner. Yes, we’re absolutely doomed. But we’re all we’ve got.


    • Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard
    • Please, Wait...
    • The Apartments
    • apart
    • Feldup
    • Stared at from a Distance
    • Stéphane Milochevitch
    • La Bonne Aventure
    • Ralfe Band
    • Achilles Was a Hound Dog
    • Flotation Toy Warning
    • The Special Tape
    • Flotation Toy Warning
    • I Remember Trees
    • Nadine Khouri
    • Another Life
    • Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard
    • I Had It All
    • Emily Jane White
    • Alluvion
    • L'Altra
    • In The Afternoon
    • Raoul Vignal
    • Years in Marble
    • Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard
    • Once
    • The Apartments
    • A Life Full of Farewells
    • The Apartments
    • In and Out of the Light
    • FELDUP
    • A Thousand Doors, Just One Key
    • IDAHO
    • Levitate
    • Thousand
    • Au Paradis
    • Emily Jane White
    • Immanent Fire
    • Eko & Vinda Folio
    • Therapy
    • The Apartments
    • LIVE at L’Ubu
    • Eko & Vinda Folio
    • Shen Anateb
    • IDAHO
    • Hearts of Palm
    • Raoul Vignal
    • Oak Leaf
    • Rivulets
    • In Our Circle
    • Motorama
    • Many Nights
    • Utro
    • First Album
    • Laish
    • Time Elastic
    • Thousand
    • Le Tunnel Végétal
    • Utro
    • Third Album
    • R. Missing
    • Unsummering
    • Will Samson
    • Welcome Oxygen
    • Flotation Toy Warning
    • The Machine That Made Us
    • RAOUL VIGNAL
    • The Silver Veil
    • Compilation
    • Talitres Is 15
    • Laish
    • Pendulum Swing
    • Motorama
    • Dialogues
    • Motorama
    • Holy Day
    • Emily Jane White
    • They Moved in Shadow all Together
    • Utro - (Утро)
    • Razvaliny (Развалины)
    • STRANDED HORSE
    • Luxe
    • Utro - (Утро)
    • Solnze (Солнце)
    • Will Samson
    • Ground Luminosity
    • Thousand
    • s/t
    • Motorama
    • Poverty
    • Micah P. Hinson
    • Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel Of Progress
    • The Callstore
    • Save No One
    • Rachael Dadd
    • We Resonate
    • Will Stratton
    • Gray Lodge Wisdom
    • Motorama
    • She Is There
    • Micah P. Hinson
    • Micah P. Hinson and the Nothing
    • Motorama
    • Eyes
    • Emily Jane White
    • Blood / Lines
    • Motorama
    • Alps
    • The Apartments
    • Seven Songs
    • Garciaphone
    • Constancia
    • Stranded Horse
    • Transmission / A Faint Light
    • Tropical Popsicle
    • Dawn Of Delight
    • Motorama
    • Calendar
    • Rozi Plain
    • Joined Sometimes Unjoined
    • Will Stratton
    • Post Empire
    • Ewert And The Two Dragons
    • Good Man Down
    • Maison Neuve
    • Joan
    • Idaho
    • You Were A Dick
    • Flotation toy warning
    • When The Boat Comes Inside Your House
    • Stranded Horse
    • Humbling Tides
    • Rubik
    • Solar
    • That Summer
    • Near Miss
    • The Apartments
    • Drift
    • I Like Trains
    • He Who Saw The Deep
    • Emily Jane White
    • Ode To Sentience
    • Rubik
    • Dada Bandits
    • Verone
    • La Fiancée Du Crocodile
    • Le Loup
    • Family
    • Scary Mansion
    • Make Me Cry
    • Emily Jane White
    • Victorian America
    • Frànçois And The Atlas Mountains
    • Plaine Inondable
    • Be My Weapon
    • March/2009
    • Forest Fire
    • Survival
    • Scary Mansion
    • Every Joke Is Half The Truth
    • Thee, Stranded Horse & Ballaké Sissoko
    • Thee Stranded Horse And Ballaké Sissoko
    • The Organ
    • Thieves
    • Swell
    • The Lost Album
    • Ralfe Band
    • Attic Thieves
    • The Walkmen
    • You & Me
    • Swell
    • South Of The Rain And Snow
    • Emily Jane White
    • Dark Undercoat
    • The Sleeping Years
    • We’re Becoming Islands One By One
    • Idaho
    • The Forbidden EP -Alas
    • Le Loup
    • The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations’ Millennium General Assembly
    • The Wedding Present
    • Live 1987
    • Taxi Taxi !
    • Taxi Taxi !
    • Stars Like Fleas
    • The Ken Burns Effect
    • Kim Novak
    • Luck & Accident
    • Thee, Stranded Horse
    • Churning Strides
    • Ralfe Band
    • Swords
    • Redjetson
    • New General Catalogue
    • The Walkmen
    • A Hundred Miles Off
    • Tunng
    • Comments Of The Inner Chorus
    • I Like Trains
    • Progress • Reform
    • The Wedding Present
    • Search For Paradise
    • Double compilation
    • Talitres Is 5
    • Idaho
    • The Lone Gunman
    • The Organ
    • Grab That Gun
    • Piano Magic
    • Disaffected
    • The Wedding Present
    • Take Fountain
    • Early Day Miners
    • All Harm Ends Here
    • That Summer
    • Clear
    • Flotation Toy Warning
    • Bluffer’s Guide To The Flight Deck
    • Clogs
    • Lantern
    • Destroyer
    • Your Blues
    • The National
    • Cherry Tree
    • Tex La Homa
    • If Just Today Were To Be My Entire Life
    • The National
    • Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
    • Temper
    • New Place, New Face
    • Destroyer
    • This Night
    • Calla
    • Televise
    • Dakota Suite
    • This River Only Brings Poison
    • The Walkmen
    • Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone
    • Elk City
    • Hold Tight The Ropes
    • Destroyer
    • Streethawk : A Seduction
    • Brando
    • The Headless Horseman Is A Preacher
    • The Birdwatcher
    • The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn
    • Elk City
    • Status