A Perfect Circle Emotive [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) 03/22/24 Tracks 1 Wide Open 2

Tracks 1 Wide Open 2 Pretend 3 Worth It 4 Sometimes You Need a Change 5 For Someone 6 Meant for Me 7 Still Gonna Miss You 8 I'll Be Here 9 Buying Time 10 Blue 11 Two Birds 12 Old and New Genre: Pop

along with the mix of emotional trauma and arrogance

bring to mind an inspired mix of '80s Tom Tom Club and Prince

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" the closest the album gets to dancefloor funk like Cosmogramma's "Do the Astral Plane" -- that is

A Perfect Circle Emotive [Explicit Content] (2 Lp's) 03/22/24 Tracks 1 Wide Open 2For EMOTIVE, their third full length album, A Perfect Circle offers up a covers heavy collection that includes a number of protest songs. What's most striking about this set is the way in which the group reworks pop classics. In the hands of frontman Maynard James Keenan and company, John Lennon's "Imagine" becomes a foreboding lament, and Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" is transformed into an oddly soothing, nearly ambient song. Other standout tracks