Circa: Now! +4
Label: Swami
Media: CD
Format: Album
WorkNameSort: Circa: Now! +4
Back when San Diego was the new Seattle (the first time), the phe-fucking-nomenal Circa: Now! was one of the primary reasons. In retrospect it’s easy to laugh at Interscope for throwing $70 mil at RFTC because of this record and their ZIP code. Still, Circa is an excellently pounding record, in a smarter-than-the-Supersuckers kind of way, and the remastering and bonus tracks on this edition make for some prime nostalgia that makes the current San Diego frenzy seem even stupider.
This article appears in Jul 7-13, 2004.