Austin Snell has a new single that he freely admits he can’t get out of his own head, and after one listen, that’s entirely understandable. “Circles,” out now via River House Artists/Warner Records Nashville, is a whiskey-fueled singalong about the vicious, cyclical pull of a toxic relationship, and it’s as ruthlessly catchy as the dynamic it describes.
Penned by Snell alongside Andrew Baylis, Michael Whitworth, and Austin Nivarel, the track rides Snell’s rip-saw vocal over lyrics that don’t bother with metaphor or misdirection. It’s transparent, direct, and completely relatable, the kind of song that earns its earworm status honestly.
Snell is candid about how deeply the song got under his skin. “‘Circles’ has been stuck in my head for months. Ever since we wrote this song, I’ve been singing it. I feel like we can all relate in some way or another, and it’s so fun to sing.”
The single arrives alongside an accompanying visualizer and follows Snell’s EP ‘Home Sweet Hell’, a 7-track turn toward his roots that established the Georgia-born singer as one of country’s more boundary-pushing new voices. Raw, direct, and built on real feeling, ‘Home Sweet Hell’ set the table for exactly the kind of single “Circles” delivers.
“Circles” is one of those tracks that earns repeat plays not through novelty but through craft. Snell and his co-writers built something genuinely infectious here, and it sits perfectly within the roots-forward sound he’s been sharpening since day one.