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Young Circles
12+ albums
experimentalindiealternative rockelectronicpsychedelic
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Young Circles pose a problem. Their songs, with their serpentine structures, dynamic percussion, and many-layered, spacey sounds, are not easily distilled or generalized. Though you can hear similarities to other bands in Young Circles’ work, the similarities can only be found in swatches, which, when quilted together, create a sound that is difficult to compare to anyone else’s. It’s hard to believe, then, that this genre-defying Florida band spent its first few years playing straight-up rock and roll. Though Young Circles cofounders Jordy Asher and Jeff Rose always gravitated towards bands that pushed the envelope musically, when they met in high school they started playing more traditional garage rock together. “We just got sick of doing the same thing all the time,” says frontman Jordy Asher, “We realized that the only songs that excited us musically were the two most out-of-place songs on our records.” So they saved those two, scrapped the rest, changed their name and started on their debut work, the Bones EP, which was released to rave revues in January 2011. “It feels really good,” says Jordy, “to know that when we started following our instincts that’s when people started paying attention to us.” Now, less than a year later, they’re back to prove their mettle with their first full-length album, Jungle Habits. Where the Bones EP hits fiercely from the start, with searing feedback and stormy beats, Jungle Habits is all about the hypnotic build in force. The first ha
