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Some bands just have a taste for Big Topics.
In the case of A Perfect Circle, the taste had always been accompanied with great expectations.
APCs 2000 debutMer de Nomspresented a sound at once familiar and hauntingly strange.
The guitars still carried a dissonant, alternative edge, but blunt force never prevailed.
As the bands name suggested, this was a project built on curves instead of right angles.
For once, you could bask in Keenans angelic vocals without bathing in sludge at the same time.
The band wasnt quite easy listening, but it was certainly easier.
The follies of religion and other forms of mass mind control were a primary theme.
Then Donald Trump ran for president.
All the old themes have returned.
The title track centers on suicide and originally included Chester Bennington.
