Circle Takes the Square New Album Due in November, ‘Rites of Initiation’ Digital EP to be Released This Month

by Ryan Minic | Aug 16, 2011

Circle Takes the Square are planning a November release for their upcoming album, Decompositions: Volume I, due out via their own Gatepost Recordings.

The effort is collection of songs comprised of three central musical narratives. The first chapter, Rites of Initiation, will be released as a digital EP on August 23rd — prior to the full album’s release in November.

Rites of Initiation Track Listing:

I. Enter By The Narrow Gates
II. Spirit Narrative
III. Way of Ever-Branching Paths
IV. The Ancestral Other Side

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