“Starless,” the first new song by A Perfect Circle in eight years, has just been released.

This year is particularly busy for Maynard James Keenan, who has already released one record (Puscifer’s Normal Isn’t) and now has new music coming with A Perfect Circle. Since the band’s reformation in 2010 after a six-year hiatus, they have only released one full-length album, 2018’s Eat the Elephant, making this new addition to their catalog highly anticipated.

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The song immerses listeners from the very beginning with a captivating melody that floats over a dynamic rhythm. Keenan delivers a powerful performance that perfectly complements the riff-driven “Starless.”

“Absolutely thrilled to debut this new track onstage in the U.K.,” Keenan shares. “While I’m excited to release the recordings, our songs always take on an expanded personality once we start performing them live.”

The song was recorded at guitarist Billy Howerdel’s Lankershim Ranch Studio, produced by Howerdel, and mixed by Matty Green (U2, Florence + the Machine, TV on the Radio), featuring drummer Josh Freese.

“Some songs are developed and refined over years,” Howerdel states. “But occasionally, one takes shape quickly, as if it had been there all along.”

Take a listen further down the page and read the lyrics directly below.

A Perfect Circle, “Starless” Single Art + Lyrics

Power hungry
Cold authority
Looking out for me
So they keep telling me
Reaching constantly
To ignore empathy
It’s a debility
Might makes right, you see

That poison worm don’t end
Gone up under my skin
Yield and bend
I’ll become the enemy

Where am I going?
How did I
How did I get here?
How do I get back?
Where am I going?
And how do I
How do I find my
How do I find my way?

Fabricated darkness has me
Fight or flight my
My turn of mind
Lost in all the lies and madness
Horror has me acting blind

Seeking, begging
Imploring
I wake up to the Lord of light
Surely reason we’ll survive this
Curable sickness
Isn’t this isn’t this

Moral compasses
Obliterated
How will it start, confiscated
You don’t agree with me
That you are the enemy
Fundamentalist blackmail
Don’t feel right to me

Where am I going?
How did I
How did I get here?
How do I get back?
Where am I going?
And how do I
How do I find my
Where am I going?
How did I
How did I get here?
How do I get back?
Where am I going?
And how do I
How do I find my
How do I find my way?

A Perfect Circle, “Starless” — Listen

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