Rick Springfield "Automatic" 2025-02-28 Circa Survive have been influenced

Circa Survive have been influenced by Deftones

The EP is executive produced by Malay

Introspective without being whiny

Initial writing sessions only involved Grohl

Rick Springfield "Automatic" 2025-02-28 Circa Survive have been influencedThe album, described by Springfield, as 20 new songs stylistically somewhere between "Working Class Dog" and "Tao". Sonically, the album sees Springfield returning to his first love of guitar based power pop and keyboards, while lyrically featuring his favored subjects of love, sex and death. "My goal was solid three minute tunes with the biggest hooks I could come up with." As Springfield explains, "the album is called 'Automatic' because the songs