Subcircus Discography of CDs

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Subcircus music CDs When Subcircus emerged on the British pop scene in 1997 with "86'd," the band stood out from the pack not only because of its peculiar Britishness (fey, artful, prickly to the touch) but also because it incorporated a refreshing emo-charged blast of amplified emotion, thereby tapping a vein of genuine ardor rarely broached in the realm of Britpop. It almost made the quartet sound erotic (in a sissy sort of way). And there were few songs from the latter half of the '90s as electrifying and grandiose as "86'd," a swooping, ebbing, summer-struck anthem topped by the delicious, inimitable bubblegum vocals of frontman Peter Bradley. The song owed something to both U2 and Radiohead, while also tipping its cap to glam rock and the kind of gloriously woebegone wretches (Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker come immediately to mind) endemic to the British pop scene. Nothing else on Carousel really challenges the unimpeachable mastery of that single, but it is nevertheless a superlative debut album that offers its fair share of noble triumphs. First and foremost, Bradley's voice transforms even the album's ...