Dream-pop Dominates Echoes Top Ten in April
The year is 25% done and here’s some of the music that’s been bubbling to the top of the Echoes playlists during April. Of course, Lyla Foy’s April CD of the Month, Mirrors the Sky is number one and deservedly so. Look for live performances and interviews with Foy in the next month or so. She’s followed by six more singers, beginning with Thus Owls, who I happen to be listening to on-air right now doing a phenomenal live Echoes set.
It’s great to see Hiroki Okano return to Echoes with his new .jp album. He was a fixture on the show in the mid-90s. And Steve Roach returns to the Echoes Top Ten with Spiral Meditations.
THE ECHOES TOP 25 FOR APRIL 2014
- Lyla Foy – Mirrors the Sky (Subpop Records)
- Thus Owls – Turning Rocks (Secret City Records)
- Marissa Nadler – July (Sacred Bones)
- S. Carey – Range of Light (Jagjaguwar)
- Beck– Morning Phase (Capital)
- Davidge – Slo Light (The End Records)
- The Capsules – The Long Goodbye (Saint Marie Records)
- Hiroki Okano – .jp (Hiroki Okano)
- Hans Christian – Hidden Treasures (Allemande Music)
- Steve Roach – Spiral Meditations (Timeroom Editions)
- Jennifer Zulli – Goddess Rising (Jennifer Zulli)
- Yasmine Hamdan – Ya Nass (Crammed Discs)
- Natalie Merchant – Natalie Merchant (Nonesuch)
- Mark McGuire – Along the Way (Dead Oceans)
- Tycho – Awake (Ghostly International)
- Hammock – Chasing After Shadows, Living with the Ghosts (Deluxe Edition) (Hammock Music)
- Green Isac – Passengers (Spotted Peccary)
- Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo – EC12 (DiN)
- Cinema 12 – Cinema 12 (Cinema 12)
- Quilt – Held in Splendor (Mexican Summer)
- James Hood – Ceremony (Edible Sounds)
- That That Revolves – Chasing Sunshine EP (Hungry Media)
- St. Vincent – St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
- Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble – Utopia – (Real World)
- Lawrence Blatt – Emergence (Lawrence Blatt)