- rock, album rock, pop rock, neo-psychedelia
- 51 min
- 11 tracks
- Virgin Records America, Inc.
Circus is the fourth studio album by American rock musician Lenny Kravitz, released in 1995 by Virgin Records. It reached number 10 on the US Billboard 200 and number five on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Kravitz's first top 10 album in the US and second in the UK.
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Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic2/5 ★
- Cash Box(favorable)
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music2/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyC−
- NME7/10
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Select2/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Rock and Roll Is Dead3:24
- 2Circus4:48
- 3Beyond the 7th Sky4:55
- 4Tunnel Vision4:19
- 5Can’t Get You Off My Mind4:34
- 6Magdalene3:49
- 7God Is Love4:26
- 8Thin Ice5:33
- 9Don’t Go and Put a Bullet in Your Head4:22
- 10In My Life Today6:29
- 11The Resurrection4:28
11 tracks, 51 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Lenny Kravitz
- Label
- Virgin Records America, Inc.
- Released
- 1995
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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