Philip Selway is the drummer from Radiohead, but that information does little to prepare you for the sensitive, gentle songs of broken love and redemption that populate his second solo album, Weatherhouse. Even his first album, the more folk inclined Familial, won’t set you up for the lush textures and seductive melodies he conjures. Weatherhouse…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/audio/01PrairieSuite.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn our 25th year, the 20th Echoes Living Room Concert CD. Epic voices from the 1990s, children of progressive rock, global music explorers and a new sound of ambient pop form part of the roadmap to Ricochets, our 20th volume of live Echoes performances. Here’s some track-by-track insight into…
Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence is not your usual Echoes CD of the Month. It’s not ethereal and dreamy. It won’t soothe you. But along with Beck’s transcendent (and soothing) Morning Phase, it’s one of the most important albums of the year.
We Pick the Best Echoes CDs of the Year at the Halfway Point. Hear them tonight on Echoes. See A Spotify Playlist Below It seems like it’s been such a long year, and it’s only half over. That’s what usually what happens when so much good music has come out. There are albums I feel…
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-SCarey.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSean Carey has created an album of transcendent repose called Range of Light that uses naturalistic metaphor inspired by John Muir to talk about themes of love and family. He talks about it in the Echoes Podcast. Hear it below. https://echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/EchoesPodcast-SCarey.mp3
Lyla Foy Brings her Haunting Songs to Echoes Live. A lot of modern singers can’t bring it live. They need backing tapes, ghost vocals, and rhythm tracks, if not more. I remember one live Echoes session where the only sound in the studio was a lone voice, barely. Everything else, vocal harmonies, bass, guitar, drums and…
Bon Iver Drummer Creates Naturalist Dream Pop Sean Carey has spent the last few years stroking drums and providing harmony vocals behind dream folk artist Bon Iver. So it’s not surprising that when he records as S.Carey, his own music has that same slow motion melancholy feel. But Carey brings some other elements to his…
Singer-Songwriter Marissa Nadler in Echoes Podcast. Her mother is an abstract painter. She grew up on Nirvana and Mojave 3 and recorded with an experimental Heavy Metal artist. Those are all aspects you might not expect from a women who makes gently melodic, atmospherically mysterious, and lyrically intriguing music, playing on fingerstyle guitar with a…
Singer-Songwriter Marissa Nadler tonight on Echoes. Her mother was an abstract artist. She grew up on Nirvana and Mojave 3 and recorded with an experimental Heavy Metal artist. All aspects you might not expect from a women who makes gently melodic, atmospherically mysterious, and lyrically intriguing music, playing on fingerstyle guitar with a voice that…
Mary Fahl Talks of Love, Werewolves and Grace Slick in Echoes Podcast Mary Fahl doesn’t sound like any other modern singer. You have to go back to vocalists like Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention and Grace Slick of The Jefferson Airplane to find a reference point for a sound which is more like warrior angels…