Circles

These are the kind of sounds I would take with me to a marine trench. I’m not going to visit one, because I’m not a marine biologist, but Circles music makes me think of unfathomable depths, as if below their electronic sounds are yet more sounds I can’t hear, at anti-altitudes I could never know. “Surface de Glace” begins on a lovely, subdued sustain with melodies swimming between. “Target” is both chill and panicked at once, with scattered guitar debris and a heady ‘80s baseline that you might be able to trace into the newly vintage pop-ambient works of CFCF. A monolithic vocal rises out like it’s just air, rather than a person breathing it. It’s all so far away, it’s all down there.