Progressive guitars, Serene Songs and Hang Drums Lead Echoes Top 25 for March
It’s no surprise that our March CD of the Month, Mark McGuire’s Along the Way, leads the Echoes Top 25. Fans of Popol Vuh, Ashra and Mike Oldfield should be in prog-epic heaven with this album. Hear Mark McGuire interviewed on Monday March 31. Beck’s Morning Phase comes up next, a beautiful psychedelic tinged pastoral song-cycle from this popular, yet I think still underrated artist. And James Hood returns to the Echoes Top 25, having previously spent some time here with his other recording persona, Moodswings. His album of Hang meditations, Ceremony. sounds better the more I hear it. Fully half of the top 25 have never been on this list before.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR MARCH 2014
- Mark McGuire – Along the Way (Dead Oceans)
- Beck– Morning Phase (Capital)
- James Hood – Ceremony (Edible Sounds)
- Tycho – Awake (Ghostly International)
- Mary Fahl – Love & Gravity (Mary Fahl)
- Luna – Luna (Domo Records)
- Ane Brun – Songs 2003-2013 (Balloon Ranger Recordings)
- Marissa Nadler – July (Sacred Bones)
- Lyla Foy – Mirrors the Sky (Subpop Records)
- Erothyme – Circadia (Erothyme)
- Coldplay – Ghost Stories (Parlophone UK)
- Davidge – Slo Light (The End Records)
- Mree – Winterwell (Mree Music)
- The Capsules – The Long Goodbye (Saint Marie Records)
- Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Concord Records)
- Linnea Olsson – Ah! (Universal UK)
- Bluetech – Spacehop Chronicles Vol. 1 (Native State Records)
- Priscilla Ahn – This is Where We Are (SQE Music)
- Ernesto Schnack – Worldbuilding (Ernesto Schnack)
- The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
- That That Revolves – Chasing Sunshine EP (Hungry Media)
- Cinema 12 – Cinema 12 (Cinema 12)
- Armon Jay – Everything’s Different Nothing’s Changed (Armon Jay)
- Dawn Landes – Bluebird (Western Vinyl)
- David Torn – That Awkward Moment (Varese Records)
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