did confirm that the Choir was "in pursuit of secular distribution." He added, "We're not bitter and frustrated; we're just trying to broaden our audience." Circle Slide would turn out to be the band's final release for a major Christian label, and it wouldn't be until 1993's Kissers and Killers that the Choir would aggressively pursue a mainstream record deal. In 2015, Circle Slide was remastered and released as a 25th Anniversary Edition. It was issued on vinyl for the first time, and the CD release was a two-disc set that featured a second CD with audio commentary on every track from Daugherty, Hindalong, Michaels and Willett, the latter of whom originally signed the Choir to MyrrhLA. Tours Circle Slide tour Sauerbrey officially rejoined the Choir as bass guitarist when the band began touring in support of this album, and he remained an official member of the band for the next two years. The Circle Slide tour was the first time that the Choir toured as a five-member unit, as Sauerbrey recruited guitarist Billy Sammons (or "Billy Wilde," as Daugherty re-named him) to the band, so that the Choir could add more of their more musically complex songs to their set list. Sauerbrey would later say, "We were a lean, tight band that could anticipate each other live. I would sometimes simultaneously change the tempo [...] completely unplanned, and the rest of the band didn't even miss a beat." Reviews at the time noted the dynamic nature of this road incarnation of the Choir. 25th anniversary tour With the release of the remastered 25th Anniversary Edition of Circle Slide, the band embarked on a three-month tour in the spring of 2015 on which they played the entire album in its entirety, along with selected songs from the Choir's repertoire. For this tour, the 77's frontman Michael Roe joined the band as their bass guitarist, and also served as the Choir's opening act, where he played songs from the 77's album Pray Naked. Response Critical reaction Circle Slide is listed at No. 53 in the book CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music. In that entry, critic Anthony DeBarros wrote that Circle Slide was "an album that stands as one of Christian music's rare blends of artistic sensibility and pop accessibility," and added that it was "a milestone in the genre and one of the band's greatest accomplishments." Circle