Track Listing

1. Come out Shooting
2. Passchendaele
3. Across the Light
4. Contender
5. Hexagon
6. Fall of Las Vegas
7. We
8. Lost Pilot
9. New Wine
10. Scarlet

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13778 in Music
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

Amazingly unique and constantly engrossing, one of 2008's best albums
If you're reading this review, congratulations, you're one of the few people who are aware of The O_C, and hopefully this review will tempt you to buy this album.

I was never great at classifying genres, but according to Gracenote (the iTunes identifier thingy) this album classifies as 'Rock', which is totally barbaric, sure there are some rock elements in it, but it's mostly ambient, leading to what can only be described as 'Post Hardcore', whatever that is.

The brilliance of The O_C is that every track manages to conjur something different, something relatively unique but rarely falls beneath sheer and utter brilliance, and wholly replayable.

Nathan Burke and all of the collaborators on the album (mainly Teppei from Thrice who has fine-tuned the album to an amazing degree) have cooked up a rare treat, something which i'd deem unmissable. From the coarse opening of Come Out Shooting, the quiet and shining Across the Light, the damn amazing instrumental The Hexagon to the haunting moster that is Lost Pilot and the marvellous Christian inspired New Wine the album is quite frankly superb and highly original. My only slight gripe is The Fall of Las Vegas, where Ingram from Coalesce adds perhaps a little too much Screamo to the song, which remains instrumentally awesome nonetheless.

In short, it's unlikely that you'll find a more odd album this year, and I would highly recommend this to everyone, except maybe the hardcore R&B/Dance crowd. To everyone who can sit, experience and appreciate great music, this is an unmissable CD, and sits along Volumes III and IV of the Alchemy Index by Thrice as my favourite album of the year so far.

Thrice-approved ultra-cool experimental effort from former Frodus front man
The Out_Circuit is the work of Nathan Burke, formerly of American spazz-core mentalists Frodus. This is his second record as The Out¬_Circuit, the previous being 2003s `Burn Your Script, Boys', a journey into dark and moody murky waters that evoked beautiful and often compelling ambience. This second effort (half a decade later) is an industrial-tinged stormer of a record that counts members of Thrice, Coalesce and Haram members amongst its works. The Thrice input is clear to see, with many tracks not sounding at all dissimilar from their recent `Water' EP, but Nathan Burke's work is much more introverted and self-indulgent. Opener `Come Out Shooting' and `The Fall Of Las Vegas' are the heaviest tracks on the record, with sinister keys and electronic drum patterns providing an unsettling backdrop to Burke's throaty and devil-like screams. In contrast tracks such as `Passchendaele' float along with intense calmness, making it perfect listening for the stoner-inclined. It all makes for an epic journey that can wake and serenade in equally beautiful measures.