Circa Survive is an American rock band from the Philadelphia suburb of Doylestown, formed in 2004. The band consists of vocalist Anthony Green (the former singer of Saosin) and members of the now-defunct bands This Day Forward and Taken . Their first album, Juturna, was released on April 9, 2005, by Equal Vision Records, and received mixed, yet mostly positive, reviews. However their second album, On Letting Go, released on May 29, 2007, met widespread critical acclaim. Their third album, Blue Sky Noise, was released on April 20, 2010, on Atlantic Records to even greater critical acclaim and mainstream success.

Their fourth album, Violent Waves, was released independently on August 28, 2012, to universal critical acclaim.