Chamber Pop trio London Grammar’s “Truth Is a Beautiful Thing” is an Echoes CD of the Month of striking maturity, luxurious depth and more evidence of Hannah Reid as one of our great singers.
The band Wilsen, fronted by namesake Tamsin Wilson has created an album of deep psychological depths and equally deep ambient spaces. It’s Echoes June CD of the Month.
Swedish electronic musicians Johann Agebjörn and Mikael Ögren take a trip to the Russian-Finish border and come back with an album of evocative tone poems, We Never Came to the White Sea.
Written by John Diliberto on April 3, 2017 It’s pretty rare that an artist could take three albums spanning 40 years, put them together, and have them sound like a coherent whole, as if it was the plan all along for them to sit together as a single epic work. But French electronic artist Jean-Michel…
Daniel Voth is a two-handed tapping finger-style wizard but with a composer’s sense of arrangement and melody. His album, Trancendance is the Echoes March CD of the Month.
Bonobo is a collagist who brings new worlds into his electronic songs. His latest album is called Migration and it’s the Echoes February CD of the Month. John Diliberto reviews it here.
Kate Bush returns with a Triumphant live album that puts a stamp on the second half of her career. It’s called Before the Dawn, a triple CD and it’s the Echoes Bonus CD of the Month.
Veteran English synthesist Ian Boddy’s As Above So Below is a masgterwork of modern electronics with a classical touch. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for January.
A former bassist for Alice Cooper, Sonia Dada and Kim Carnes, Erik Scott creates an ambient soundscape called in The Company of Clouds,. It’s Echoes December CD of the Month
Singer Agnes Obel has created an intimate and epic album of privacy, intimacy and secrets called Citizen of Glass. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month.