
Dry the River is a band from England that takes yearning songs and turns them into gorgeous harmonies surrounded by psychedelic tinged arrangements redolent of bands like Love.
Dreams and More in Echoes Top 25 for January.The first month of the new year begins strongly with a Top Five that includes 3 CDs of the Month. At the top is this month’s pick, Sherry Finzer’s haunting Sanctuary III: Beyond the Dream. There’s last month’s pick, Wax Tailor’s propulsive chanson and Hollywood sound collage,…
Purity Ring Slip Another Album on Their Fingers Purity Ring are a Canadian electronic music duo originally from Edmonton with singer Megan James and electronic musician Corin Roddick. I saw them at the Mountain Oasis Music Festival in 2013 where they were a last minute replacement for Tricky. Although they were dwarfed by the large…
Philip Selway & Wax Tailor Lead Echoes November Top 25ECHOES TOP 25 FOR NOVEMBER 2014 Philip Selway – Weatherhouse (Sony Music Entertainment) Wax Tailor – Phonovisions Symphonic Orchestra (Le Plan) Tim Farrell – Cascadia (Tim Farrell) Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier – Moderato Cantabile (ECM New Series) Orenda Fink – Blue Dream (Saddle Creek) Chad Lawson – The Chopin Variations (Hillset) Bonobo – The North Borders…
Echoes Top 25 for October, 2014Does it get any more eclectic than this? 70s space rockers from Germany, minimalist dream-poppers from Austin; a DJ turned electro-folky from England, ambient chamber music from America, and new classical chamber music from Europe, acoustic guitarist from Doylestown, an electro-lounge player self-releasing his music and a drummer from one…