Billy Howerdel
Guitar World|November 2022
THE A PERFECT CIRCLE GUITARIST UNVEILS HIS SOLO DEBUT, WHAT NORMAL WAS, WHICH TAKES HIS SYNTH ROCK AND SHOEGAZE INFLUENCES TO NEW LIMITS
Amit Sharma
Billy Howerdel

WHEN GUITAR WORLD puts it to Billy Howerdel that his lead lines tend to be single-note ideas sometimes with the added depth of a lower or higher octave he agrees wholeheartedly. Caked in reverb and delay, it's more of a textural approach than anything too chordal, at times tricking the listener into thinkin they're hearing something else entirely.

"What I'm going for is a swarm of many bees," says the A Perfect Circle mastermind with a laugh. "And yeah, I guess I'm trying to fool people and make them question whether it's a guitar or synth. As much as I love rock, especially Led Zeppelin and the first two Ozzy Osbourne albums, when I started listening to Cocteau Twins and Siouxsie and the Banshees, I became more interested in soundscapes."

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