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'Kicking Your Crosses Down' Quarantine Sessions Audio Only

Here is the track for your listening/collecting pleasure <3

'Kicking Your Crosses Down' Quarantine Session

This month's quarantine session is 'Kicking Your Crosses Down' .

Things got quite weird. Hope you dig it!  ( audio only to be posted separately )

Filmed & Tracked By Circa in Our Respective Homes

Mixed By Nick

Edited by Porter McKnight

ps my house was full of wildfire smoke so I had to track in a different room than usual with a mask, yay apocalypse! - C

Q&A Livestream

hey everyone!

5 minute Warning 

*REMINDER*

 the Q&A is TODAY (sunday 9-27) at

1pm PT / 4 pm ET

PLEASE NOTE WE ARE BACK TO USING A PASSCODE AGAIN :)

Hope to see you there 

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New Creature Merch

Hey everyone, excited to launch two new designs to the Creature store today. These colors are exclusive to the creature store and include new logo tags on each item. 

We'll also be launching some different color versions to the public on Monday but you can get first crack on those on our Merch Limited Store.

Design by Wesley James, @woodencyclops on instagram.

Thanks for all your support!

Creature Club Store:

2020-09-25 18:35:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Creature Cast 010 with Esao Andrews (AUDIO ONLY)

Here is the audio only version of our chat with Esao Andrews! There are things discussed on the podcast that are visual and won't make that much sense but this is pretty minimal, Perhaps we will attempt to get some screen grabs to add here. 

Enjoy

Creature Cast 010 with Esao Andrews

Hello fine creatures...

I hope you will enjoy this lengthy conversation we had with our 6th member, visual soul mate, the amazing mind behind every Circa Survive album cover, the amazing visionary and dear friend  Esao Andrews.

We talk about how we met, Esao's artistic journey (including a look at some of the new things he's working on), the saga of Soybean, and lots more.

2020-09-24 18:39:44 +0000 UTC View Post

'Slow Dance Angry Tears'

Greetings Creatures,

I was having a rough day and then had a bunch of kind people reach out to me, telling me they  were also having rough days and well long story short I somehow got to listening to a new song I wrote and it actually amazingly made me feel a bit better... which is super weird, potentially bordering on some weird narcissistic territory there perhaps? I don't know, is it ok to feel healed by your own work? Sounds ok, but if I think about it too much it makes me feel...

My original instrumental demo for 'Most Dangerous Commercials'

When we were writing On Letting Go I went through some kind of manic period of creativity.  After almost 2 years of solid touring the band was living in our second house and in a down swing as far as our ability to communicate & write songs. I think now reflecting back on it we were all just regrouping from the exhaustion but at the time I felt like we needed to be producing a lot more than we were. To complicate things our practice/writing space was tiny, unventilated and i...

Creature Cast 009

And we're back!

This episode is pretty great. I was sad because my samples weren't working so we improved a bunch of them via mouth. Brendan decided to look up each of our names on urban dictionary. We do our best to pick up where we left off from  the tour tales of Episode 8 but it's a jumbled amnesiacish (not a word) affair as usual. We talk about meeting our FOH engineer and wonderful friend of over 12 + years Chris McKinney, AKA Wiz, AKA Wizard, AKA Wizardface420.... We revisit...

Stare Like You'll Stay Safe Camp sesh.

During the track selection for Blue Sky Noise, the appendage EP found itself a pillow for many strong feelings to fall upon. There were simply too many songs that meant too much to the band for us to choose which ones would be left out. Often, we find ourselves in agreement on most tracks for an album but when there are so many tracks it’s inevitable that there will be disagreements. Sometimes there are one or two tracks that mean everything to one person and the others just don’t quite f...

Anthony Live Album Pre Release

Excited to release Would You Still Be Live - a collection of live recordings from my tour last fall. Feels like years ago at this point. All the love and credit to my band - Keith Goodwin, Tim Arnold & Anays Torres. They helped me reshape these songs to something so special and unique. They're my favorite versions of any of the solo songs I've ever done. One day we'll do it again.

It will be available for $5 or Pay What You Want on Bandcamp tomorrow but here's a sneak p...

'Child Of The Desert' Quarantine Sessions (Audio Only)

Hope everyone is having a lovely day. Enjoy it ! <3

C

Colin - Child Of The Desert - Pedal Cut

I thought it would be fun to share the video that is just the view of my pedal board as I went through the song for our recent Quarantine Session. (Child Of The Desert)

This is not the set up I use live (that one is a lot more streamlined) ,  there is a lot of stuff on this one for variety that I can choose from when recording at home. 

The pedals that are doing the most work in this song are the Ibanez DE7 and the Boss Super Shifter. (I am working on a video specificall...

August Contest Winner

The winner for the August Contest is Marow for this beautiful comment!!!! Just a reminder to all that we are picking our favorite comment every month as the monthly contest winner.

'Child Of The Desert' Quarantine Sessions

Let's go fucking crazy.  Enjoy it everyone <3

AUDIO ONLY VERSION/DOWNLOAD HERE  

Tracked and Filmed By CIrca In Our Respective Homes

Special Guest Steve Choi On Guitar

Mixed By Nick

Edited By Porter McKnight

Today's Q&A <3

3 minute Warning !

3:00 PM Eastern / 12:00 PM Pacific

(US and Canada)

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Best Bass Slide Ever?

     Here is a little video I put together showing how silly things can get in the studio sometimes. Back when we were writing Blue Sky Noise, Colin and I had a little inside joke (maybe we still do) where we used to add slides to everything possible. Oh that riff is ending? Slide. Oh that riff is about to start???? Slide. Oh the song is in a very quiet emotional section??? SLIDE!!! Maybe we did it as a way to relieve the tension that builds when you spend over a year...

New Shirt!

Here we have an awesome new design by the awesome Wesley James, @woodencyclops on instagram. Wes was once the keyboardist of Portugal The Man before retiring big and focussing on visual arts.

I know Patreon has an option Polls but honestly it just doesn't work as well for this scenario and frankly I wouldn't have been able to post this sweet Bernie meme. 

I'm considering doing a creature only version of this shirt with a creature logo somewhere on it.  but th...

August Q&A 💗 This Sunday

Hey everyone, it’s that time again! Trying alittle earlier to change it up for some of you who have trouble making the later ones.

Time: Sunday Aug 30, 2020

3:00 PM Eastern / 12:00 PM Pacific

(US and Canada)

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Find your local number: 2020-08-25 16:28:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Heartbeats (The Knife Cover)

When I first started playing music in my small town in MD, I remember having a certain reserved disdain for cover bands. Making money from someone else’s music didn’t sit well with me. It seemed uninspired and lazy and I had apparently glossed over the heart of the idea, which was that people were just trying to have a good time. I carried that idea with me for a long time, ironically missing that my own early bands were mostly regurgitating our favorite punk and hardcore songs, and ...

July Q&A Video!

Hey Level 4 people! 

Here is the Q&A video from a few weeks back. Sorry for the delay in posting this I thought it would be fun to edit it to include gallery view as well as speaker view. Such a fun chat. Looking forward to another one at the end of this month :) love you

xoxo

Creature Cast 008

and we're back again!

If these episodes had titles I think this one would be called " A musician always forgets." LOL

We talk about the first few tours of the band and a lot of the details remain... fuzzy.  See the attachment to understand the bootleg t-shirt we reference later in the episode.

Hope you enjoy this blathering conversation.  <3

Sneak peak at some lyrics I’ve scribbled down for new ideas

The term chicken scratch is interesting because it started out in reference to music and the way it made people dance and leave a scribbles in the dirt and kick feet like a chicken. Communication has always been one of the biggest challenges for me, mostly because I have a hard time understanding myself enough let alone to make sense of it enough to share clearly to anyone else . So I share the clouded signal. The static between who I think I am and what I think I’m hearing or feeling. Thi...

Tunnel Vision Acoustic

Hey guys! Here is a quick acoustic version of tunnel vision. Special thanks to the boys for the puppet show!

New Creature Merch

Hi Everyone. Twenty years ago, (yeah that's right long before the inception of the creature club), My friend Ian and I entered a make your own t-shirt store in the sawgrass mall in Fort Lauderdale Florida. One of those spots where they have the iron and the letters and you can put whatever you want on a shirt. I walked out wearing this Navy Blue Fruit of the Loom shirt that says "hi, I'm a creature." This was my favorite shirt for years. I wore it to meet my daughter when she was born at the ...

Beards Badass Bass Breakdowns 3

Whats up guys! I'm back with another Bass Breakdown. This video is a tutorial on the song "We're All Thieves". This song was already partially written when I first joined the band, including the bass line for the verse which is the most interesting part of the song. I think Colin had written that part, and I remember feeling a bit nervous when joining the band, because I hadn't really written any bass lines before then that sort of pulled the song in a new direction. I wasn't sure if I was ab...

Semi Constructive Criticism - Safe Camp Session

Hello Creature Family! Welcome to August...

Please enjoy this spaced out sexy version of Semi Constructive Criticism! It's such a blast to take our songs and turn them inside out like this.

Thanks so much for being here, we love you.

Tracked by Circa In Our Respective Homes.

Mixed by Steve

July Contest Winner

Sorry for the delay! Patreon was down last night when we were trying to post the winner for July! So without further adieu... The winner for July is Ashley Kennedy!!! You win Hand written lyrics for "House of Leaves" from Anthony, a 30 minute chat with us, and $100 credit to our merch store! Congratulations! 

Just a reminder to everybody that we are scanning through the comments every month and picking our favorite comment as the winner. 

Reminder about Give Away Contest

UPDATE/CLARIFICATION : There seems to be some confusion about the contest giveaway, all you have to do to be in the running is comment on ANY of our patreon posts throughout the month. ALL COMMENTS MADE THROUGHOUT THE MONTH ARE CONSIDERED. Even comments on old posts. 

So this wasn't an "official give away contest request for comments under this post" post, although it is totally fine that you all are dropping comments on it too LOL. We will mak...