Review: A PERFECT CIRCLE's Display Of Intensity And Melancholy

August 5, 2003

Linda Laban of Boston Herald reports that the audience needed no warming up at A PERFECT CIRCLE's performance at Berklee Performance Center in Boston Sunday night (August 3) as part of the group's "warm-up" summer tour. "Like his other band, angsty prog-metal outfit TOOL, [frontman Maynard James Keenan]'s soon-to-be two-album-old A PERFECT CIRCLE is also fiercely loved," she writes.

"Half a dozen new songs from the upcoming 'Thirteenth Step', due Sept. 16 on Virgin Records, were carefully placed throughout the short hour-and-change set.

"Though no huge departure, these songs displayed a keener sense of the band as more than a vanity project. Without losing any heavy metal force, they seemed more melodic, often with a baroque feel, and sometimes, almost quite pretty.

"Warm-up it may have been, but this was a full dress rehearsal. The stage was gorgeously draped and dramatically lighted to add a gothic sensuality to the proceedings.

"Each member was placed to form a circle, looking face on, with Keenan central at top, perched on a platform. Cast in wavering shadows, his strange writhing figure looked like a mythical William Blake character, wracked with intensity and melancholy." Read more.

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