Courtesy: Universal Music Enterprise
Officials with Universal Music Enterprise have announced that the company will release a new hits collection from A Perfect Circle this Fall. The new album, titled, Three-Sixty will be released via Universal Music Enterprise (Ume) on Tuesday, November 19th. The album will be released in both a standard edition and an expanded deluxe edition. Band co-founder Maynard James Keenan (Tool, Puscifer) discussed the upcoming hits package, explaining the band’s formation and how his relationship with friend Billy Howerdel (Ashes Divide) impacted the group’s upcoming compilation. “Billy and I created A Perfect Circle out of a now long-running friendship, and I think the music we have made reflects that personal connection and has given us the ability to further develop and trust our intuition,” explained Keenan. “I feel Three Sixty is an accurate representation of that friendship and those instincts.”
Kennan and Howerdel formed A Perfect Circle in the 1990s. They enlisted the help of a handful of other well-known musicians to help record their albums and join them on tour. That list included: James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age, Failure), Paz Lenchantin (Entrance Band, Zwan), Jeordie White (Marilyn Manson), Josh Freese (The Vandals, Devo) and Tim Alexander (Primus, Attention Deficit). The band’s first album, Mer de Noms, was released in 2000. It quickly went to Number Five on Billboard’s Top 200. The band then topped itself in 2003 with the release of its sophomore record, Thirteenth Step. That album would go on to debut at Number Two on Billboard’s Top 200. The band’s third full length release, eMOTIVe, is the band’s most recent. It was released on election day 2004. It is a collection of cover songs that was completely re-worked by the band. Since the release of that album, the band has been on hiatus, with its members working on their own primary projects. In all, A Perfect Circle has sold over five million albums worldwide.
The standard edition of the band’s upcoming hits compilation will include thirteen tracks taken from its current catalogue. The deluxe edition will include a bonus second disc that contains songs from eMOTIVe, as well as four live performances and songs from the band’s catalogue. The track listing for both the standard and deluxe edition are listed below.
Three Sixty, both standard and deluxe editions, track listing:
1. The Hollow
2. Judith
3. Orestes
4. 3 Libras
5. Weak And Powerless
6. The Noose
7. The Outsider
8. Blue
9. When The Levee Breaks
10. Imagine
11. Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums
12. Passive
13. By And Down
Disc 1
1. The Hollow
2. Rose
3. Judith
4. Orestes
5. 3 Libras
6. The Package
7. Weak And Powerless
8. The Noose
9. The Outsider
10. Blue
Disc 2
1. Imagine
2. Passive
3. People Are People (live)
4. Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm Of The War Drums
5. When The Levee Breaks
6. By And Down
7. 3 Libras (live)
8. Gravity (live)
9. Fiddle and The Drum (live)
The band’s upcoming hits compilation isn’t all that APC fans have to anticipate. The band’s members have announced that also slated for release is a new limited edition box set titled A Perfect Circle Live: Featuring Stone and Echo. The collection of songs focuses on the band’s 2010 – 2011 tour. It includes a full-length DVD recording of the band’s August 2011 Red Rocks concert and a three-CD collection of live recordings. Each recording is directly connected to each of the band’s three studio recordings. The complete box set will be released Tuesday, November 26th. It will only be available via the APC Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/aperfectcircle. Fans can also go to the band’s Facebook page and official website, http://www.aperfectcircle.com for more on these releases, tour dates, and all things APC. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and “Like” it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil’s Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
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