Circuit3

Circuit3 is the retro-futurist electronic project of Dublin based musician Peter Fitzpatrick. Known for melodic synthpop rooted in classic analogue hardware, Fitzpatrick has released a series of critically regarded albums that blend vintage electronic textures with contemporary production. His work often reflects personal themes through carefully crafted synthesis and vocals, and Metanoia marks his most introspective release to date.  Circuit3 has collaborated with influential figures in electronic music, including Vince Clarke, and continues to explore the emotional potential of analogue sound.

He steps away from his melodic synthpop background on his latest album Metanoia. The album moves into spacious, quietly expressive instrumentals. The sound is minimal and tactile, shaped by the classic late70s and early80s electronic vocabulary without being locked inside it.

The first spark for Metanoia came from a simple plan to meet for a drink after a gig. Peter Fitzpatrick (Circuit3) and Mat Smith from the Mortality Tables imprint ended up talking about trauma, therapy, and the parts of ourselves we usually keep out of sight. That conversation led to a small, recorded experiment. From there the music began to take form, guided by fragments pulled from their notebooks.

Metanoia grew out of therapy and the slow process of letting difficult truths surface. Instead of singing those words, Fitzpatrick shaped them through analogue machines. The title refers to the deep shift that can follow self-reflection: a break, a reset, a way of living with more honesty.

A defining moment in the project was the opportunity to work with Vince Clarke, a longstanding influence on Fitzpatrick’s music. They created an eleven-minute piece titled ‘The Hope’, named after the bar near Farringdon, London where that first conversation between Fitzpatrick and Smith happened. The collaboration feels like a dialogue across time: the artist Fitzpatrick once was, the one he is now, and the one emerging through this process.

Metanoia is not a linear or predictable account of trauma, breakdown, and recovery. Instead, it moves through a series of moments and memories that surfaced during therapy.

The album closes with ‘The Hope’, the collaboration with Vince Clarke. Across eleven minutes, it builds a melodic drone landscape that holds both hopelessness and hope at the same time. The piece suggests that neither feeling disappears; they sit beside each other, always present, always waiting to be recognised.

Martyn Ware (The Human League, Heaven17) "The album sounds great! Glad current artists are keeping the faith with quality songwriting"

The Electricity Club "if the idea of a dystopian album fashioned from the roots of Synth Britannia appeals, then ‘The Price Of Nothing & The Value Of Everything’ is for you . . . this album is melodic vintage synth ear candy with a dose of gloom. "I'm keeping the flame alive for those sounds and hopefully developing my songwriting along the way” – well, as far as CIRCUIT3 is concerned, he has achieved that!"

Furtherdot.com “the signature sounds, drum machine rhythms and lyrical stylings of that era are handled with exceptional care, with the fragile mystique of a track like ‘Face In The Crowd’ sounding like a newly-discovered tape of a Reset Records session left in a dusty corner of Vince Clarke’s Splendid studio space”

Dan Hegarty (RTE “The Alternative”) : “Everything about this album is wrapped in that wonderful retro electro magic. It’s ten tracks that bring you into the past and then the future, with a nod to pre-Songs Of Faith & Devotion Depeche Mode (which certainly isn’t a bad thing!)"

The Electricity Club ‘Technology For The Youth’ is an intelligent artistic statement on the trials and tribulations of mankind in the context of space travel. ( ‘Technology For The Youth’) is a record for the smarter-than-average music enthusiast, not your usual ‘Let’s Rock’ festival frequenter.