Celestial is the final full-length studio album by Circle X

Circle X

Circle X was a No Wave/art-rock band that began in 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky. They were part of the same late '70s/early '80s No Wave scene that included bands like Mars and DNA.-Career:...

 and was released in 1994.

After experimenting and releasing EPs for more than a decade, Celestial marked the bands first major release since Prehistory in 1983.

Celestial is regarded as "showcasing the diverse, honed ideas in an impressive cycle of thought-provoking bludgeons and sublime dirges", and "Circle X made it seem like No Wave

No Wave

No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City. The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre...

 never went away."

The album would be the last album by Circle X due to the death of founding member and guitarist Bruce Witsiepe from HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

complications in 1995.

Track listing

1. "Kyoko" - 7:35
2. "Pulley" - 3:55
3. "Crow's Ghost" - 8:27
4. "Gothic Fragment" - 3:49
5. "Some Things Don't Grow Back" - 4:32
6. "Tell My Horse" - 3:34
7. "Hardcases (Big Picture)" - 3:33
8. "Cabin 9 Dub" - 3:44
9. "Waxed Fruit" - 4:58
10. "Little Celestial Poet" - 12:21
11. "They Come Prancing" - 1:07

Credits

• Artwork By [Typography] - Raquel Shapira
• Bass, Keyboards - Rik Letendre
• Drums - Martin Köb
• Mastered By - Ray Janos
• Photography [Disc Photo] - Lamonte Young
• Producer - Circle X
• Recorded By, Producer - Mike Pullen*
• Guitars, Voice, Tape, Photography [Front And Back Cover], Artwork By [Graphic Design] - Bruce Witsiepe
• Voice, Synthesizer, Tape - Tony Pinotti