Circuit3 announces ‘Metanoia: Music From Therapy’, featuring Vince Clarke collaboration ‘The Hope’
Circuit3’s “Metanoia: Music From Therapy” arrives August 14, 2026 on Mortality Tables, closing with an 11-minute Vince Clarke collaboration, “The Hope”.
Dublin electronic artist Circuit3 will release “Metanoia: Music From Therapy” on August 14, 2026 through the Mortality Tables label. The album closes with “The Hope”, an eleven-minute track written and produced with Vince Clarke. It is available for pre-order now on vinyl and CD via Circuit3’s own Bandcamp page, and digitally through Mortality Tables’ Bandcamp page.
Circuit3 is the project of Peter Fitzpatrick, who describes “Metanoia” as a step away from his “melodic synthpop background” into “expressive analogue electronic instrumentals.” The album grew out of a conversation between Fitzpatrick and Mortality Tables label boss Mat Smith at a bar called The Hope near Farringdon, London, following a Vince Clarke “Songs Of Silence” show in 2023. That conversation, about trauma and therapy, led to a recorded experiment that developed into the full album.
Circuit3 ‘Metanoia’ tracklist and Vince Clarke collaboration
The eight-track album is sequenced as a loose account of memories and moments surfaced in therapy rather than a linear narrative. The tracklist: “Cracked Eyes”, “Mood”, “Imperfect”, “Burnout”, “Where Are We Going?”, “Shielding From The Past”, “What If Everything Goes Right?” and “The Hope”. Opener “Cracked Eyes” sets a Pat Ingoldsby poem, used with permission, against Fitzpatrick’s music; “Where Are We Going?” is built around acoustic piano.
The closing “The Hope” is credited to Circuit3 and Vince Clarke and was written and produced together, marking Fitzpatrick’s second credited collaboration with the Erasure and Yazoo co-founder. Fitzpatrick describes the eleven-minute piece as a “melodic drone landscape that holds both hopelessness and hope at the same time.” All other tracks were written and recorded solely by Fitzpatrick. The album was mastered by Richard Dowling at WAV Mastering, who also mastered Circuit3’s 2022 “Overview Effect” EP. Cover artwork and design use jesmonite sculpture pieces by Jackie Hudson Lalor and photography by Jenny Callanan, with design by Alison O’Leary-Fitzpatrick.
About Circuit3
Circuit3 is the recording project of Dublin-based musician Peter Fitzpatrick. Working within a “retro-futurist” framework rooted in late-1970s and early-1980s electronic instrumentation, Fitzpatrick built his catalogue on melodic synthpop before “Metanoia” moved the project into instrumental territory. In June 2022, Circuit3 released the “Overview Effect” EP via Manchester label AnalogueTrash, featuring remixes by KeX/1 (Lloyd Price of The Frixion) and label mates Vieon alongside vocals from Alessia Turcato; the EP served as a teaser for the “Technology For The Youth” LP, released the following month on AnalogueTrash.
Fitzpatrick’s connection to Vince Clarke dates to a 2023 meeting after one of Clarke’s “Songs Of Silence” performances in London, where he and Mat Smith of the Mortality Tables label first discussed the ideas that became “Metanoia: Music From Therapy”. With the new album, Circuit3 extends that collaboration into a full studio credit on “The Hope”, released August 14, 2026 on Mortality Tables.
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