Circus Battalion: “Snorting Glass”

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Written By Michael Gutierrez

Is this a song about crystal meth? Our highlighted track “Snorting Glass” namechecks Mass & Cass, so yeah, that’s probably what Circus Battalion is on about. The local punkers craft an obliquely cautionary tale about a life wasted with the drug. For kicks? A form of self-medication? An act of desperation? Or just the nihilistic decision to check out for a while. For forever. One of many portraits of a society off the rails from their full-length Made in Post-Truth America.

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