Echoes Top 25 for September, 2014This is our 300th Top 25 list. 12 months x 25 years of Echoes Progressive electronics make it to the head of the Echoes Top 25 for September with Tigerforest’s The Tides of Day and Night , the Echoes CD of the Month for September. Newcomers to the list include…
The Echoes 25th Anniversary Poll is OPEN Help us celebrate 25 years of astounding sounds, chilled ambiences and breathtaking vocals by voting in the Echoes 25th Anniversary Poll. Vote & You’ll be entered into a drawing to win an Apple iPad. You get to pick 25 Icons of Echoes and the Top 250 Echoes Albums.…
She was number one on Billboard in June and now she’s Number One at Echoes. Lana Del Rey’s “Ultraviolence” leads our Top 25 for August.The singer has turned in a fragile and alluring album that taps into the darker side of Echoes sonically and thematically. It was the CD of the Month in August and…
There’s some great CDs in the Echoes Top 25 for July. Leading the way is Yoed Nir’s CD of the Month, The Next Dream. He’s one of two cello albums to make the list. The other is first timer Maya Beiser with her album of cello covers, Uncovered.
We Pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the Halfway Point. Hear them tonight on Echoes. See A Spotify Playlist Below It seems like it’s been such a long year, and it’s only half over. That’s what usually what happens when so much good music has come out. There are albums I feel…
Top 25 for June 2014. Guitars Pluck at the Top of the Echoes Top 25 for June Three guitarists release one of their strongest albums this past month. Topping the list is Carl Weingarten’s CD of the Month For June, Life Under Stars, a beautiful pastoral tinged Americana travelogue. John Luttrell is the newest of…
The Echoes Top 25 for May continues a trend towards chilled out vocal music but the top three slots are held by three CD of the Month picks, one vocal, two instrumental. Lyla Foy is a relatively new artist who used to record as Wall. Her Mirrors the Sky album, the first under her own…
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…
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…
Erik Wøllo and Mark McGuire bring guitars back to Echoes Top 25 Erik Wøllo’s February CD of the Month, Timelines, leads Echoes Top 25. It’s a brilliant recording of layered guitar dreamscapes. Following close behind is our soon-to-be March CD of the Month, Mark McGuire’s Progressive Rock epic, Along the Way. You’ll be hearing more about…