albeit still approached by Popp as an instrumentalist rather than a beat-maker

” Doyle felt a change in the way he approached

nigh impenetrable

Dirgent heralds a darker portion of the album

CIRCLE - Pori CD Slowcore albeit still approached by PoppPori is much more than just the fifth studio album by the Finnish experimental rock institution Circle. It's also the name of a small post industrial city near the Gulf of Bothnia, where Jussi Lehtisalo founded the group in 1991. In some senses, the music mirrors the character of the metropolis itself: tranquil, historic, and slightly monotonous but belied by grit, weirdness, and surprising artistic fertility. When it initially appeared on the