This month marks the 15th anniversary of Russian Circles’ Geneva. To celebrate, we’re offering a hand-numbered cassette version limited to 150 copies worldwide. The cassette includes an obi-strip, a download card, and a resealable sleeve.

On, Geneva, Russian Circles expand on what they’ve done best all along; the rhythm section hijacks the melody and goes cruising for trouble. Dave Turncrantz is not only an insanely lithe drummer but a great conductor as well: the dynamic control he exerts is endlessly pleasing to listen to… Brian Cook, now fully integrated as the band’s bassist, contributes massive, earth-moving low-end and malevolent texture from bowed instruments and electric bass… Equally breathtaking are Mike Sullivan’s compositions: layered parts that four separate guitarists would have difficulty executing, looped in evolving patterns that rarely repeat note for note…

Geneva is a linear, ruthlessly gorgeous album. There’s barely a breath between tracks, but there’s a rhyme and reason to its every nuance; no tangent is allowed to branch off without careful analysis of where it may lead… The band is never uncertain or ambivalent about their next move… Listen, and become immersed in a master class of timbre and tonal sculpting, classic both in level and scope.