On ‘Thirteenth Step’, A Perfect Circle avoided a sophomore slump with a brilliant concept album
A Perfect Circle successfully avoided the sophomore slump with 2003’s Thirteenth Step. Keeping in line with the progressive + art rock influences of the band’s debut, Mer De Noms, the album had a much better synergy between Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel than previous material. Three of the singles, “Weak And Powerless”, “Blue”, and…
