Singer and songwriter Julia Easterlin started out as a looping musician, but then she collaborated with Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farke Toure, changed her performance name to Hite and got a live band to play her introspective songs.
Truth is a Beautiful Thing and so is the music that London Grammar makes on their new album. The English dreampop trio has released one of the most powerfully contemplative albums of the year.
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.
Truth is a Beautiful Thing and so is the music that London Grammar makes on their new album. The English dreampop trio has released one of the most powerfully contemplative albums of the year.
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.
Wilsen’s I go Missing in My Sleep leads Echoes June Top 25 followed by the electronic road trip of Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren and the melodic finger stylings of Michael Hewett.
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Echoes John Diliberto takes a closer look at 8 albums from across The Best of Echoes 2017, So Far Top 25. It reveals the breadth of the list from dreampop to electronic to solo piano and more.
Coming up on the next Echoes, it’s new music by the dream-pop band London Grammar and a singer from New Orleans named Maggie Koerner goes down deep on a new EP produced by Fink
Coming up on Echoes Slowdive returns with their first new album in 22 years. And Liset Alea, one of the voices of Nouvelle Vague, released a new album called Heart-Headed.