Ireland’s Tiny Magnetic Pets are creating retro electronic pop and they have one of the originators of that sound as a guest, Wolfgang Flur from Kraftwerk. And Chronotope Project returns with Ovum.
It’s new music by Electric Youth who released an ambient film score for a movie that never came out called Breathing. We’ll also hear the ambient guitar band, Hammock from Mysterium.
Cigarettes After Sex is a band whose sultry sound creates a cinematic rock noir. We’ll also hear pianist Catherine Marie Charlton’s I Dream About This World, the Wyeth Album..
ECHOES TOP 25 for July 2017 Hear a Spotify Playlist of Top 25 Below London Grammar – Truth is a Beautiful Thing (Ministry of Sound Recordings) Wilsen – I Go Missing in my Sleep (Secret City Records) Yaima – OvO (Yaima) Maggie Koerner – Dig Down Deep (EP) (R’COUP’D) Emel Mathlouthi – Ensen (PTKF) Nym – Lilac Chaser (Nym) …
Tamsin Wilson is an English singer who records in the group Wilsen, creating evocative pop songs about restlessness, identity and nostalgia with some surprising imagery – including a centipede.
A review of Lola Marsh’s latest video, “Wishing Girl”, an artist from Echoes Top 25 June 2017. The video features an unexpected pregnancy that is pursued by space aliens from a distant world.
March to May is a dream-folk duo channeling 60’s American and English folk in a pastoral video for “Fifty Years,” a romp through the blossoms and windows of life.
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.
We survey the first six months of the year for our favorite albums. Among them are Wilsen’s I Go Missing in My Sleep, Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 3, and Mike Oldfield’s Return to Ommadawn.