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Roy Montgomery's Ghostly Disappearing Act

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Roy Montgomery's Ghostly Disappearing Act

August 9, 2018 • Roy Montgomery's ambient guitar symphonies foreground the voices of Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr, Julianna Barwick, Grouper's Liz Harris and others.

Viking's Choice: The Year In Cathartic Screams And Meditative Drones

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Viking's Choice: The Year In Cathartic Screams And Meditative Drones

December 26, 2017 • When so much of 2017 felt broken, it felt good to scream along to punk and metal records. But more often than not, restoration for NPR Music's Lars Gotrich came from quiet music and a good cup of tea.

Viking's Choice: The Year In Cathartic Screams And Meditative Drones

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Circuit Des Yeux's 'Brainshift' Holds A Disorienting Mirror To Humanity

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Circuit Des Yeux's 'Brainshift' Holds A Disorienting Mirror To Humanity

November 6, 2017 • "Brainshift" opens Reaching For Indigo quietly with organ and synthetic choral voices, almost like an invocation. In a manipulated video, Haley Fohr's face is processed through purple soundwaves.

Hear Six Organs Of Admittance's Fiery 'Taken By Ascent'

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Hear Six Organs Of Admittance's Fiery 'Taken By Ascent'

December 5, 2016 • Ben Chasny resets the dial of his long-running project with a momentous folk-blues burner. Chris Corsano, Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr and Bitchin Bajas' Cooper Crain join in.

Haley Fohr Has Reverse-Chris Gaines'd Us With Jackie Lynn's 'Alien Love'

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Haley Fohr Has Reverse-Chris Gaines'd Us With Jackie Lynn's 'Alien Love'

April 11, 2016 • Under her alter ego Jackie Lynn, Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr exists in an alternate world where outlaw country dreams of synth wires and her moaning baritone narrates the seediest story ever told.

Viking's Choice 2015: The Year In The Loud And The Weird

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Viking's Choice 2015: The Year In The Loud And The Weird

December 29, 2015 • In 2015, Iron Maiden reigned, a once-mysterious sacred music collective returned after 20 years away, and some Olympia punks smashed the patriarchy with a boot to the head.

Viking's Choice 2015: Hear The Discussion And The Songs

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Review: Circuit Des Yeux, 'In Plain Speech'

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Review: Circuit Des Yeux, 'In Plain Speech'

May 10, 2015 • Until now, Circuit des Yeux has been a singular entity. But Haley Fohr refocuses the intensity of past records in full-band arrangements that glide even as they exude delirious urgency.

Viking's Choice: Circuit Des Yeux, 'Fantasize The Scene'

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Viking's Choice: Circuit Des Yeux, 'Fantasize The Scene'

April 15, 2015 • There's a soothing allure to "Fantasize The Scene," a song meticulously arranged to re-create the sensation of sinking into nothing and everything.

Viking's Choice: Mind Over Mirrors, 'Calling Your Name'

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Viking's Choice: Mind Over Mirrors, 'Calling Your Name'

January 14, 2015 • An Indian pedal harmonium lies at the center of the band's sound. Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr contributes a bewildering baritone voice, which helps make the song feel like an out-of-body experience.

Question Dot GIF: What Hometown Artist Inspired You To Make Music?

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Question Dot GIF: What Hometown Artist Inspired You To Make Music?

September 10, 2014 • Circuit Des Yeux, White Lung, SubRosa, Obnox, and others sit for GIF portraits during Raleigh, N.C.'s Hopscotch Music Festival, an event that celebrates its homegrown music scene.

Viking's Choice 2013: We Saved The Weirdest And Loudest For Last

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Viking's Choice 2013: We Saved The Weirdest And Loudest For Last

December 31, 2013 • From Satan's ridiculous riffs to Katie Gately's chutes-and-ladders computer music, Lars Gotrich brings a wide range of heavy, loud, out-there sounds to bury 2013 once and for all.

Viking's Choice 2013: We Saved The Weirdest And Loudest For Last

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