Mainstays of my desert island top five, Thrice, recently recorded a Daytrotter Session that was released today. The session is phenominal and includes three tracks from their newest record, Beggars, as well as a Tom Waits cover.  Check out Circles.  Vocalist and lyricist Dustin Kensrue best described the formation of the song and what it represents lyrically:

“Riley always has the most demo parts to sort through. I put three of his parts together and out came this song. He little added bar at the end of the second measure in the verse was weirding me out at first, but ever since I starting singing over it, I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Lyrically, the song deals with our fascination with “progress” which we seem to loosely identify with change. But true progress requires a set destination, something I feel most of us rarely have in mind when we use the term. I have to reference Chesterton again as the last line of the song is a paraphrase of this quote: “Progress should mean we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.” -DK”