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Catalina Cara’s “Circles” is a dreamy spiral through fatigue and quiet power

  • June 30, 2025
  • Natalie Patrick
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Catalina Cara reminded us that strength can also exist in low volume. Now there’s “Circles”, a feather-light and profoundly moving new song that sounds like the quiet murmur of a private conversation you hear from a seat at a rain-slicked window. It clocks in at less than three minutes, and it’s a soft storm righteous, emotional and politely ferocious.

Grounded in a bed of gauzy synths and brushed snares, “Circles” doesn’t scream to be heard. Instead, it gets in your face, in an atmosphere that feels more lived-in than staged. Cara’s voice has that rare tension, that it’s frail, so close to the danger of breaking, and yet there is something supernaturally grounded in it. Like a late-night thought that doesn’t quite leave your head, her tone lingers, echoes and recurs over and again, just like the title says.

More than anything, what’s so impressive is just how much emotional weight it carries in so little time. There is fatigue here an exhaustion that feels recognizably human. But there’s doubt, also, woven into the interstitial spaces between words and shimmering chords. Instead of allowing those emotions to bog the song down, however, Catalina turns them into a quiet form of resilience.

There’s a light renewal in the repetition, in the circular rhythm of the synths, the gentle spinning of a record you never want to end. “Circles” is a time-stand-still song, the song you throw on when everything else is too loud, too fast, too much. It doesn’t demand your attention it earns it with pure atmosphere and honesty.

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