Tracklist:
\nA1 A Presence in the Woods
\nA2 Wandering Soul
\nA3 The Dust settles (Part 1)
\nA4 Sleepless
\nA5 The Dust settles (Part 2)
\nA6 The Return of Nothing
\nB1 The Dust settles (Part 3)
\nB2 Pray
\nB3 The better Things to come
\nB4 On The Horizon
\nB5 Where has All the Time gone?
\nC1 Silence and Distance
\nC2 Anywhere but Home
\nC3 In the Fire and Flames
\nC4 Slip away
\nC5 The last Day
\nD1 August (Part 1)
\nD2 Nine Hours later
\nD3 Nimble
\nD4 August (Part 2)
\nE1 The Facade fades
\nE2 Resigned
\nE3 Surrender
\nF1 These Memories pass
\nF2 The Burning Circle
\nF3 The new Day
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\nThe Burning Circle and Then Dust is Lycia\u2019s fourth studio recording, originally released on double CD via Projekt Records in 1995. Save for a very small CD re-release in 2006 by Silber Records, the album has never been reissued since \u2013 and never before on Vinyl!
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\nMike VanPortfleet himself commented: \u201cAfter several years of doing more synth oriented material I wanted a return to my guitar roots (in particular English post punk and 4AD). Lycia started as a guitar based band and I wanted to reaffirm that with disc one, which was originally going to be the release. I was also listening to a lot of shoegaze then, which inspired a return of making the guitars, as opposed to the synths, the focal point of the atmospherics.\u201d. Many things have been said about the album along the last twentyeight years, and the band chose the following to describe the record.
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\nFrom Projekt.com. – The Burning Circle And Then Dust was a groundbreaking point in Lycia\u2019s career. It marked a shift from more atmospheric music towards song-oriented music with tracks like \u201cPray\u201d & \u201cSlip Away.\u201d It marked the first collaborations between Mike VanPortfleet & Lycia members David Galas & Tara Vanflower. It marked the transformation of Lycia into a honed out live touring machine.
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\nFrom Pandamonium Magazine via Projekt.com. – Moving back into more formal song structures, Burning Circle returns to true song-writing, and places equal emphasis on guitar as the electronics. However, the music is as intense and powerful as ever, conjuring up vast vistas of soundscapes which are captured in delicate webs of song and structure. Songs like \u201cPray\u201d are positively dance friendly, while others find Lycia moving towards the fertile ground of darkpop. Breathtaking in scope and beauty, exultant in vision, exhilarating in sensory delight. Lycia have arrived. From Ned Raggett of AllMusic – a high point of American dark rock and the band’s greatest and most ambitious work.
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\nThis release is available in four formats:
\n2CD in a 6-panel digipak
\n3LP on Black Vinyl limited to 100 copies
\n3LP on Gold Vinyl limited to 200 copies
\n3LP on Neon Orange Vinyl limited to 200 copies
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\nNOTE: VINYL COLOR PHOTOS ARE MOCK-UPS PROVIDED BY THE LABEL. THESE ARE APPROXIMATIONS OF THE FINAL PRODUCT AND MAY NOT BE 100% ACCURATE FOR THE FINAL PRODUCT.<\/b>
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