The Best of Echoes 2011 Listener Poll Here are the results from our Listener Poll for the Best of Echoes 2011. Saturday and Sunday Echoes listeners get to hear the Best of Echoes Echoes 12/17 & 18/2011. Links below will take you to reviews of these albums with full track samples or to Amazon. THE…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2011
THE ECHOES STAFF PICKS BEST OF 2011 Here are our staff picks for the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2011. You’ll notice many of these (10) were Echoes CD of the Month Club selections from this past year. Links will take you to reviews and tracks from these albums. Here’s our list. You can also…
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Echoes Top 25 Goes to Another Dimension
Akara’s Extradimensional Ethnography tops Echoes November Top 25 The Echoes Top 25 is a bit wild this month. Akara, of course heads it up with their Extradimensional Ethnography, an album that gets deeper with each listen. That’s an Indi release from Joshua Pullman, but our second album on the list isn’t even a CD, it’s…
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Echoes Poll Opens-John Diliberto’s Top Ten
THE ECHOES 2011 LISTENER POLL IS OPEN I submitted Top Ten lists to Echoes affiliate WXPN, in the beginning of November. Personally, I think polls are a blast. I love reading the albums that other DJs, critics and personalities have created. Whether they affirm my own tastes and opinions or elicit a WTF reaction, it…
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Patrick O’Hearn leads Echoes Top 25
Patrick O’Hearn’s Transitions, our Echoes CD of the Month, leads Echoes Top 25 for October. This month’s list is definitely plugged in, especially the Top 10 with Patrick O’Hearn (read review), Jeff Oster, Bryan Carrigan, Jon Durant, David and Steve Gordon, Steve Hackett and Falling You all being heavily electronic. Even when acoustic instruments are…
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Echoes Top 25 Surrenders to Jeff Oster.
Jeff Oster’s seductive album of lounge electronica, Surrender, leads the Echoes Top 25 for September. After a month of repeats it was great to get into new music this past month and a lot of it is in the Echoes Top 25. Jon Durant leaps to the head with his new album, Dance of the…
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A Pleasant Aroma Atop Echoes Top 25 for August
Atomic Skunk Leads the Echoes Top 25 for August. Alchemy by Atomic Skunk wafted to the top of our Echoes Top 25, no surprise since it was our CD of the Month. You can read a review and hear tracks from this entrancing album of electronica exotica. August was a bit of an anomaly in…
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Best of Echoes 2011 So Far.
Skuli Severrison, Agnes Obel and Moby Top Echoes Mid-Year List We usually wait until the end of the year for these lists but why not take stock as we pass the half-way mark of 2011. Here’s our25 favorite Echoes CDs from the first 6 months of 2011. Skuli Sverrisson – Seria II (click for review…
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Winterlight Melts Echoes June Top 25
Winterlight’s Hope Dies Last leads Echoes Top 25 for June The sun is shining and it’s in the 90s in the land of Echoes, but Winterlight didn’t melt under the heat as it leads the Echoes Top 25 this month. His album, Hope Dies Last was the Echoes CD of the Month for June. That…
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Moby Destroys Echoes Top 25for May.
Moby’s Destroyed Tops Echoes Top 25 for May No surprise that Moby’s Destroyed was #1 on the Echoes Top 25 for May. It was the Echoes CD of the Month. Electronic music dominates the Top 10 with a surprise at #2, Divine Matrix’s Invisible Landscape leaping in. This album of melodic glitch-flecked music came out…