The Best Albums of 2023 on Echoes. We pick out our 30 Favorite albums of the year covering the range of the Echoes Soundscape. This is a Best of list like no other. It was hard to choose just 30!
Santa’s here and his bag is full of sonic seasonings for an Echoes Christmas. Traditional carols are reinvented and new carols emerge. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward from January and then backwards from December.
Kevin Keller’s Evensong leads the Echoes Top 25 for November, followed by Russell Walder, Brannan Lane, John Gregorius, & Sean O’Bryan Smith and 22 more great albums.
Moby covers a song by Cream, and it’s not one of the big ones. He takes a haunting track from Disraeli Gears and turns it slowcore. We’ll also hear something from Beautiful Chorus.
Echoes brings you downtempo bossa nova when we hear new music from Eric Hilton and Natalia Clavier of Thievery Corporation. Their album Corazon Kintsugi taps their sultry Latin side.
Russel Walder’s Speak to the Storm leads the Echoes Top 25 for September, followed by Kevin Keller, Opium Moon, Erik Wollo, Mark Dwane, and 20 more great albums.
The October CD of the Month from Russel Walder. He’s come a long way since his Windham Hill duo with Ira Stein. We also celebrate 34 years of Echoes with a look back at music we played in 89.
Get ready for some powerful darkness with new music by Myrkur. The Danish singer is categorized as Black Metal, but really it’s just darker dream pop. She has a new album called Spine.
VEiiLA’s Sentimental Craving for Beauty leads the Echoes Top 25 for September, followed by Jeff Oster, Lis Addison, a Mark Shreeve Tribute, Kinobe, and 20 more great albums.