Circles
New
Life, in finally offering studio versions of hitherto unreleased stage
favourites that didn’t make it onto the debut, in some ways marked
the close of a chapter. With 1997’s Circles, the band moved forward
with a set of new material. Framed
by two meditative instrumentals, Salú and Coming Home, Circles
is perhaps the most impassioned Solstice album, the title track being
a case in point. A bustling musical energy crackles beneath lyrics concerning
individual and communal spirituality, but this is no utopian fantasy,
being firmly grounded by samples of radio reports of the violent confrontations
of Stonehenge 1985. The theme continues throughout the album, with the
necessity for change rooted in the political and ecological chaos of the
end of the twentieth century. |
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