Decompositions, Volume I, Chapter 1: Rites of Initiation is an extended play

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by the American experimental screamo

Screamo

Screamo, though used loosely to generally describe music that features screamed vocals, is actually a musical subgenre of hardcore punk which predominantly evolved from emo, among other genres, in the early 1990s...

 band Circle Takes the Square

Circle Takes the Square

Circle Takes the Square is an American post-hardcore band from Savannah, Georgia. Their debut release was a 7-track self-titled EP in 2001, followed later by a 7" split with Pg. 99...

 that was released on August 23, 2011 through the group's own Gatepost Recordings. The promotional digital-only EP is Circle Takes the Square's first release of new material since 2004's As the Roots Undo

As the Roots Undo

As the Roots Undo is an album released by the screamo band Circle Takes the Square in 2004. It was released in CD and LP formats, by, respectively, the Robotic Empire and HyperRealist record labels....

, and will also serve and as the first chapter of the group's Decompositions Vol. 1 due out in November 2011.

Track listing

1. "Enter By The Narrow Gates" – 6:55
2. "Spirit Narrative" – 2:46
3. "Way of Ever-Branching Paths" – 8:57
4. "The Ancestral Other Side" – 4:27

Personnel

Circle Takes the Square

• Drew Speziale – vocals, guitar
• Kathy Stubelek – vocals, bass
• David Rabitor – guitar, backing vocals
• Caleb Collins – drums