Fernwood‘s Arcadia is a lot like the pastoral influences that inform it’s name and music, it grows on you slowly. It was the Echoes CD of the Month for February and now, 6 weeks after I selected it, I like it even more. It’s the number one album for February. Read the review and hear some tracks from this beautifully understated album. It’s followed by another album that has a certain earthiness to it, even if it is spun thru space: Lanterna‘s Backyards, our March CD of the Month.
ECHOES TOP 25 FOR FEBRUARY 2015
- Fernwood – Arcadia (Whitehorse One)
- Lanterna – Backyards (Badman Records)
- Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like a Bell (Owsla)
- Orenda Fink – Blue Dream (Saddle Creek)
- Kaki King – The Neck is a Bridge to the Body
- Rebekka Karijord – We Became Ourselves (Control Freak Kitten Records)
- Zola Jesus – Taiga (Mute)
- Shadowlands – Shadowlands
- Mark Kilian – Trust Me (Lakeshore Records)
- The Irrepressibles – Nude (Naked Design Recordings)
- Angela Sheik – Home Before Dark
- Johan Agebjorn – Notes (Paper Bag)
- Wax Tailor – Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra (Le Plan)
- Sherry Finzer – Sanctuary III: Beyond the Dream (Heart Dance Records)
- Dry the River – Alarms in the Heart
- Forrest Fang – Letters to the Farthest Star (Projekt Records)
- Purity Ring – Another Eternity (4ad)
- Sounds from the Ground – 20 Years of the Best Sounds from the Ground (Waveform)
- Bat Manors – Literally Weird (Bleed101 Records)
- FKA Twigs – LP1(XL Recordings)
- Robert Rich – Filaments (Soundscape Productions)
- Beck – Morning Phase (Capitol)
- Ricky Kej and Wouter Kellerman – Winds of Samsara (Listen2Africa)
- Johan Johannsson – The Theory of Everything (OST) (180 Records)
- Olafur Arnalds – Broadchurch (OST) (Mercury Classics)