opinions were like kittens i was giving them away. -modest mouse
there's nothing as something as one. -e. e. cummings
Echo Revolution In The Wire music review
Discuss Echo Revolution and all of your favorite musicians in our forums.
Have you heard this album? Give us your rating above, 5 being best.
Echo Revolution In The Wire
Open Arms
Their name sums up what they are; an echo revolution. With a blended
melody
of piano, guitar and soft drums, and then vocals that escalate with the
lyrical possibilities, the band is pure pop ballad glory.
Track listing:
01 Footnote
02 Fire In The Hole
03 Left Behind
04 Alive Tonight
05 Raincoat
06 Buyer Beware
07 Drive-Thru Wedding
08 Carousel
09 Satellite of Love
The band’s sophomore release, In The Wire (Open Arms, 2005) is powerful
contemporary rock, with vocals that reach out to JJ72, more than once.
But
increasingly forthright, are the Bono tones in lead Lee Harding’s voice
(‘Left Behind’), pleasant and comfortingly just the right fit.
The San Diego foursome is Harding, Robin Eisenberg (keyboards, backing
vocals), Andy Villas-Boas (bass, backing vocals) and Nate Schaedler
(drums).
And noticing their detailed repoire, this won’t be the last time you
hear of
them.
The band signed with Bunim-Murray Productions to have their music used
on
MTV’s Road Rules and The Real World, and they are currently featured on
over
fifty college and commercial radio stations, including Sirius. Most
impressive thus far, is their being awarded an honorable mention in
both the
Billboard’s World Song and VH1’s Song Of The Year.
Setting the pace for upcoming bands after them, Echo Revolution have an
intensely creative way of putting feelings to words, and letting it be
perceived as art, as well. A true poetic talent combined with thrush
instrumental capabilities as in ‘Buyer Beware’: Hang onto heaven/And
the
morning will tell/How much you loved/How far you fell/Too much
thinking/And
the heart turns to glass/A party favor ‘neath the overpass.
Also included on the album is the band’s own lovely rendition of Lou
Reed’s
‘Satellite of Love’, which is a must-hear for any fan.
This is a gentle push towards a band so caught up in the music, instead
of
reaching for the sky, they became eternally lost in the wire.
