Circle II Circle – Consequence of Power (2010)

After their ‘decent’ 2003 debut album “Watching in Silence”, Circle II Circle is been in free-fall releasing several uninspired albums and “Consequence of Power” is not the exception to that trend. With very dull songs and a very bland production, “Consequence of Power” is another album that will greatly be un-noticed by the community and fans of Zak Stevens.

As you can imagine, Zak Stevens’s vocals are the best of this otherwise very boring release. Zak delivers a very emotional and solid vocal performance to very dull sounding and repetitive songs, so it’s like sprinkling a turd with 24k gold flakes, making the end-product still not appealing.

The guitar work is repetitive and very simple, songs like “Mirage” and “Redemption” are just cheap attempts at making decent music. The drumming is ok, but with lame song structures, you can’t really do much to help them. The sporadic keyboards are ok, but also can’t save the overall dullness that this album will bring to your ears.

In general, if you are looking for good music and a solid dose of Zak Stevens, get Machines of Grace self-titled debut album. If you are a Circle II Circle fan, you might like this album since it’s as dull as their previous albums (except the first one). We can’t really recommend this album even tough we like Zak’s vocal style, so stay away like it was hazardous radioactive material.

Release: September 24th, 2010

Country: USA