History Music / CircleTakesTheSquare

* EpicRocking: Not that it stopped them. On ''As the Roots Undo'', 'Kill the Switch' is close to nine minutes and 'A Crater to Cough In' is around eight, but on ''Decompositions: Volume Number One'', they take it UpToEleven with 'North Star, Inverted', being close to ''eleven minutes'', and that's not all. If you exclude the intro track, their average song length over their two full-length albums is over six minutes.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Their music ''is'' this. Seriously.

* GenreBusting, GenreRoulette, NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Ain't it so much. They're pretty difficult to categorise given how many styles they fit into their sound. You're liable to hear PostHardcore, {{screamo|Music}}, {{emo|Music}}, {{grindcore}}, ProgressiveRock, PostRock, and ProgressiveMetal, but they also throw elements of {{folk|Music}}, BlackMetal, MathRock, HardcorePunk, {{metalcore}}, [[HarshNoise noise]], PostPunk, and several other genres into some of their songs. Strangely, the band's own Drew Speziale categorised ''As the Roots Undo'' as "just a PunkRock record from 2004", which is about the most unassuming description one could imagine of their music, bordering on SuspiciouslySpecificDenial territory.

Circle Takes the Square is a MindScrew PostHardcore[=/=]{{Screamo|Music}} band formed in 2000, in Savannah, Georgia. They are often praised for their unique blend of {{progressive|Metal}}, screamo, {{grindcore}}, PostRock, and EmoMusic. They have released a total of two albums in their run, a split with fellow screamo oddballs pg.99, and a self-titled EP, which have attracted substantial critical acclaim and have been extremely influential in their [[GenreBusting (many) genres]].

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Can reach anywhere from 1 to 10, often within the same song. Overall they're probably mostly in 7-9 territory though; there are a lot of quiet parts, but the heavy parts are just too intense for them to qualify as anything lower.
* MoodWhiplash: This too. It's probably one of their most noteworthy musical characteristics. "Non Objective Portrait of Karma" is a pretty typical example, going from about a level 3 to about a level 10 on the Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness almost instantaneously before jumping, again almost as instantaneously, back to about a 4 and then back up to about a 9 or a 10.

* UncommonTime: Part and parcel of being progressive music, though it probably doesn't show up in every song. "Kill the Switch" has a few examples, though it also has long passages in CommonTime. The second album has quite a few songs that nearly take this to MathRock levels and earned them comparisons to Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan.

* LeadDrummer: Caleb's drumming has also been singled out for quite a bit of praise. Really, there isn't a weak performer in this ensemble - and given the technicality of their competitions, there really can't be.

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->''"As the Roots undo\\

!!!"Rejoice, rejoice, a noble birth...":

* AlbumTitleDrop: Prime example is ''As the Roots Undo'' with the song 'Interview at the Ruins'

-->"As the Roots undo
-->And the branch becomes..."
--> ''Interview at the Ruins''

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[[caption-width-right:299:Confusion at its finest..]]

* GenreBusting, GenreRoulette, NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Ain't it so much. They're pretty difficult to categorise given how many styles they fit into their sound. You're liable to hear PostHardcore, {{screamo|Music}}, {{emo|Music}}, {{grindcore}}, ProgressiveRock, PostRock, and ProgressiveMetal, but they also throw elements of {{folk|Music}}, BlackMetal, MathRock, HardcorePunk, {{metalcore}}, [[HarshNoise noise]], PostPunk, and several other genres into some of their songs. Strangely, the band's own Drew Speziale categorised ''As the Roots Undo'' as "just a PunkRock record from 2004", which is about the most unassuming description one could imagine of their music.

* LeadBassist: Kathleen by virtue of being one of the two lead vocalists, but also for playing some highly technical and complex bass lines.

Circle Takes the Square is a MindScrew PostHardcore[=/=]{{Screamo|Music}} band formed in 2000, in Savannah, Georgia. They are often praised for their unique blend of {{progressive|Metal}}, screamo, {{grindcore}}, PostRock, and EmoMusic. They have released a total of two albums in their run, several splits, and one self-titled demo, which have attracted substantial critical acclaim and have been extremely influential in their [[GenreBusting (many) genres]].

* GenreBusting, GenreRoulette, NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Ain't it so much. They're pretty difficult to categorise given how many styles they fit into their sound. You're liable to hear PostHardcore, {{screamo|Music}}, {{emo|Music}}, {{grindcore}}, ProgressiveRock, PostRock, and ProgressiveMetal, but they also throw elements of {{folk|Music}}, BlackMetal, MathRock, HardcorePunk, {{metalcore}}, {{Noise}}, PostPunk, and several other genres into some of their songs. Strangely, the band's own Drew Speziale categorised ''As the Roots Undo'' as "just a PunkRock record from 2004", which is about the most unassuming description one could imagine of their music.

* GenreBusting, GenreRoulette, NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Ain't it so much. They're pretty difficult to categorise given how many styles they fit into their sound. You're liable to hear PostHardcore, {{screamo|Music}}, {{grindcore}}, ProgressiveRock, PostRock, and ProgressiveMetal, but they also throw in elements of {{folk|Music}}, BlackMetal, MathRock, and several other genres into some of their songs.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Basically all of the song transitions on their two full-length albums, to the point that it's often difficult to tell where one ends and the next begins without looking at one's music player. The self-titled EP is an exception; the only transition that employs this is "Comes With the Fall" into "Houdini Logic".

* LoudnessWar: Both albums are pretty squished, although ArtisticLicense may apply. It should be noted that both albums have wide dynamic shifts throughout, but when they get loud, they clip really badly.

* GreenAesop: "North Star, Inverted" seems to have this as a major theme, though given the band's usual MindScrew, interpretations may vary.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Most of their songs do this, to the point that it's often difficult to tell where one ends and the next begins without looking at one's music player.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: Most of their songs do this.

* GenreBusting, GenreRoulette, NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Ain't it so much. They're pretty difficult to categorise given how many styles they fit into their sound. You're liable to hear PostHardcore, {{screamo|Music}}, {{grindcore}}, ProgressiveRock, PostRock, and ProgressiveMetal, but they also throw in elements of {{folk}}, BlackMetal, MathRock, and several other genres into some of their songs.