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Outer Circle – S.T.
Outer Circle
S.T.
Style: Punk
Catalog Number: BB129
Not much information is known about Los Angeles-based synth-pop band Outer Circle besides the fact that they played around the city in places like Lhasa Club and The Roxy during the early ’80s. Their lone self-titled album on Long Beach-based Bemisbrain Records is a bit of an oddity in the post-punk spectrum that lands somewhere between minimal wave and synth-punk with cold synthesizers, guitars, and melancholic vocals. The songs are all properly creative though, especially the final track “Broken Children” which has a sorted twisted lounge singer vibe with Steven “Spit” Spingola crooning over a repetitive drum machine groove and slide guitar before moving into an extended synth solo / outro. If you’re into it, this one pops up quite a bit around Los Angeles.
Recommended – B2 Broken Children
Tags: Minimal Wave / Post-Punk / Synth Pop
Tracklist:
A1 Blind Venetians
A2 The Home Fires
A3 Another Moon
B1 Inside
B2 Broken Children
Credits:
Bass – Paul Santos (4)
Cover [Cover Design], Design [Cover Design] – Patrick Collison
Drums, Synthesizer – Lee Howell
Engineer – Randy Burns
Lap Steel Guitar [Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar] – Brad Bechtel
Mastered By – JS*
Photography By [Back Cover Photo] – Brian Gillogly
Producer – Bemisbrain, Outer Circle (2)
Synthesizer – Patrick Collison
Vocals, Clarinet – Steven Spingola “Spit”*
Written-By – Bechtel* (tracks: A3, B1), Howell* (tracks: A3, B1, B2), Collison* (tracks: A3, B1), Santos* (tracks: A1 to A3, B1, B2), Spingola* (tracks: A2, A3, B1, B2)
