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- Oct 17, 2025An utterly evocative, disarming full-length that’ll haunt listeners long after its reached its conclusion.
- UncutNov 10, 2025Glacial electronic-first compositions like "Vessel" ape the atmospheric intensity of Julia Holter, but even in her exile, Ballentine finds something pretty to latch onto in every song. [Review of the Year 2025, p.28]
- Record CollectorOct 30, 2025And Your Song Is Like A Circle may not be overly diverse in its palette, but as every track flows gracefully into the next, listeners might just appreciate that fact. [Dec 2025, p.103]
- Oct 17, 2025Circle weighs heavy with its search for meaning, but makes no attempt to gloss over the answers.
- Oct 17, 2025It is vaporous and intimate, gauzy and blurred—a triumph in Skullcrusher’s thematic and instrumental evolution.
- Oct 17, 2025Circle is a compelling, often mesmerizing listen, but you might have trouble finding a foothold.
- Oct 17, 2025A song like "Maelstrom" lets loose with a thundering bass drum and more-distant syncopated snare. For the most part, though, tracks levitate above ground along webs of acoustic guitar, piano, layered vocals, and atmospheric shimmer to the point where it's sometimes difficult to distinguish one song from another.