Natalie Merring records as Weyes Blood and she’s released a gorgeous album of dream pop called Front Row Seat to Earth. John Diliberto brings us that and music by Sin Fang, an Icelandic musician who hangs with Sigur Ros.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.
They used to be called Sister Crayon, but now, as Rituals of Mine, the austere drum and vocal duo has released Devoted. We’ll hear that and new music from the soulful electronica of Boxer Rebellion.
Peter Gabriel releases an homage to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Sin Fang adds his Spaceland album to the legion of Icelandic pop releases. We’ll hear them on Echoes.
Singer Norah Jones goes back home on her new album called Day Breaks. We’ll hear a track from that and the electro-pop band called Fresh Snow.
The Album Leaf’s Between Waves washes over the Echoes’ Top 25 for September.ECHOES TOP 25 for September 2016 The Album Leaf – Between Waves (Relapse Records) Skye & Ross – Skye & Ross (Cooking Vinvyl) William Tyler – Modern Country (Merge Records) Tigerforest – Songs of Reverence (Lemongrass Music) Mutual Benefit – Skip a Sinking Stone (Mom & Pop Music) …
Moby goes back to his dance moves and political crusader modes in two new videos form forthcoming album, These Systems Are Failing.
William Tyler’s Modern Country leads Echoes’ Top 25 for AugustECHOES TOP 25 for August 2016 William Tyler – Modern Country (Merge Records) On Dead Waves – On Dead Waves (Mute) Marissa Nadler – Strangers (Sacred Bones Records) Aukai – Aukai (Aukai Music) Gileah Taylor – Songs for Late at Night Vol 2 (Casa Coraggio) Tor – Blue Book (Loci Records) Symbion Project…
Nuuxs is a singer from France via England with an imperiously seductive approach. She has two videos out this year “Holy Man” and “Cry.”
Dave Preston is a guitarist who makes the kind of ambient guitar music that would find him in the company of Robert Fripp, Jeff Pearce or Ashra, but that same music also found him in the company of Justin Timberlake.