...And the Circus leaves town

• John Garcia: Sång, gitarr
• Josh Homme: Gitarr
• Scott : Bas
• Alfredo Hernandez : trummor

The playing time on the album is 72 minutes but about 20 minutes of that is silence.

The last song Spaceship Landing is an 11 minute epic but the track shows up as being about 34 minutes long. At the end of the song there is about 3 minutes of silence, 20 seconds of some weird sounding singing/noises, about 17 minutes more of (very annoying) silence and then there's the song Day One . The song Day One is supposedly dedicated to Kris and Dave (Grohl) of Nirvana (possibly in tribute to Kurt Cobain).

Catamaran is listed as copyright Yawningman, which rumor has it is the band that Alfredo Hernandez (drummer) belonged to before Kyuss. Mario Lalli also gets credit for Spaceship Landing. The "Madman of Encino" gets partial credit on some vocals though which ones aren't specified.

KYUSS - ...And The Circus Leaves Town

by Sean Denomey
Imprint Staff

This is the fourth release for Kyuss, a band whose albums have received critical acclaim in the past without commercial success. ...And the Circus Leaves Town is an impressive record unfortunately destined for the same fate.

Kyuss has a sound all their own. The first thing the listener notices is the vocal mix, which makes for overpowering music on most tracks. This is the only disappointment of the album; that a guy like John Garcia who is obviously one of the better singers on the scene, gets mixed into the background instead of allowing his James Hetfield-esque vocals to come through. However, after a few plays the undeniable strength of the music gives the listener a touch of amnesia, as the mix suddenly works, and works well. This is especially the case with the powerful "El Rodeo", a song that seems to command the listener to clench their fists and teeth and repeatedly bang their head off the nearest wall. Throughout the album, Kyuss demonstrate unique song constructions that prove once and for all that there is more to rock n' roll than verse-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-verse-chorus-repeat. This combined with excellent musicianship makes for a disc more addictive than nicotine, heroin, and Sega Saturn combined.

While showing strong heavy metal roots, Kyuss lack the screaming lead guitars that are standard equipment for most metal acts. The band sounds incredibly calm and humble, in sharp contrast to a band such as Pantera, who place more importance on a tough-guy image than making quality music (listen to Far Beyond Driven for an example).

If you've got fifteen bucks and aren't afraid to experiment, this is a cool disc to take a chance on. If albums wore shades, Circus'd wear Oakleys.