The Echoes Top 25 for July 2020: Aukai’s Game Trails is at the top, and our list includes Ben Blackett, Moby and 22 other great CDs. See what should be in your collection.
We have music from the duo Bob Moses. They have a new album of their propulsive electronic pop and we’ll hear the title track, “Desire,” featuring the musician known as Zhu.
New music by Swedish singer Ane Brun. She’s been dribbling out singles from her forthcoming album and she has a new one called “Honey.” We also have new music by obylx.
New music by dream pop singer Sohn & the Metropole Orchestra who turn his electronic pop into pop symphonies. We’ll also hear music from Aukai off their new album of world fusion, Game Trails.
New music by Yaima, the dream pop duo whose music is suffused with nature imagery and hang drum rhythms. We’ll also hear from Julianna Barwick’s new album of her looped gothic chants.
The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
It’s music by electronic dream pop singer Half Waif. The daughter of an Indian refugee from Uganda and an Irish-American, she heard Indian bhajans and Celtic pop growing up.
We get High on Isra. That’s actually the name of a band out of Germany making an electronic pop. We’ll hear from their album, Sad Sad Sad. We’ll also hear from the California Guitar Trio.
New music by singer Sohn & the Metropole Orkest who turn his electronic pop into pop symphonies. We’ll also hear music from Aukai off their new album of world fusion, Game Trails.
It’s dreamy, downtempo music by JFDR, that’s an abbreviation of her more complicated Icelandic name. We’ll also hear electronic music by Spinger from the album, Invisible Tree.