Echo lake is an english indie pop band formed in london in 2010. Wild peace, a song by echo lake on spotify we and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. A spiral of heavily processed vocals is the sound that begins wild peace, the debut fulllength from south london shoegaze duo echo lake. Swimmers is hazy, hypnotic and deliriously seductive, just kids is a sevenminute beach housemeetsgalaxie 500 swoonfest, while the sumptuous slacker rock of last song of the year contains an effortless guitar melody beamed in. Their debut ep young silence was released through no pain in pop in 2011 and their debut album wild peace was released in june 2012 through slumberland records. Wild peace by echo lake released in 2012 via slumberland. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Beach house, the cocteau twins and my bloody valentine wander in and out and were sat propped up against walls in silence with totally blissed grins on our faces.
What saves the duo is how splendidly their iridescent sounds can evoke a moment, allowing listeners to lose themselves in the music. The band worked exclusively as a duo in songwriting and recording, but was extended to a fivepiece for the uncommon live date. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. A little latter than planned, dis is streaming the new album from echo lake, and has a track by track guide to the album by the band. This debut finds echo lake throwing a rather extraordinary sonic party. However loud the acclaim, the release was inevitably overshadowed by the shock death of.
Marrying thom hills huge, dense production style with countless interweaving layers of linda jarvis emotive and cavernous voice, the tracks seem to float like the densest of mirages, maintaining a majestic indierock classicism. Download atoms for peace live at the roundhouse 20725 aac. At times on wild peace you might wonder if echo lake are merely a caricature of every previous shoegaze and dreampop outfit. Lets breathe the air, easy one time just so we can, feel for a while all that we are, yesterday, the voice is i have, so much. Upon hearing the opening of echo lake s debut album, wild peace, one wonders whether the band will be able to sustain an entire hour of this sound. Echo lake london duo thom hill and vocalist linda jarvis are not the first band this year to produce something cavernous, laden with fuzzy distortion and tending towards ethereal. The record is a nearperfect encapsulation of their early sound, with critics calling it dazzling, hypnotic and deliriously seductive and truly magnificent. And the confidence that echo lake imbue them with allows them to soar when others would selfconsciously crouch in the corner. The band is centred on the songwriting partnership of singer linda jarvis and producerguitarist. In the case of wild peace, the outcome reveals itself as something striking, singular and mercurial. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at.
Echo lake in dreams daytrotter session by echo lake. Arriving via no small amount of blog hype, echo lake took their time when constructing debut album wild peace. The melodies comprise many layers of sound a layer is put on a layer until there is a colourful sonic tapestry the sound of wild peace is as multilayered as slowdive managed to. Their second album, era, was released in march 2015. In case you werent aware, earlier this year echo lake released a brilliant 910 scoring album entitled wild peace. Echo lake is een vijfkoppige dreampopband, eind 2010 gevormd in londen. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our cookie policy. Echo lake would release a 7 as well as contributing to a variousartists 7 compilation before releasing their debut fulllength, wild peace, in the summer of 2012. The big week of album releases continues with echo lakes second lp era, out now via no pain in pop cdvinyl or download through itunes. Wild peace serves as a glorious realisation of when a band chooses to stride out and actually do, rather than just saying i should, i might or i could. South london shoegaze duo echo lake got their start in late 2010 after producer and multiinstrumentalist thom hill met vocalist linda jarvis at art school. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Reviews of wild peace by echo lake, debut album from london duo thom hill and linda jarvis, drawing comparisons to cocteau twins, my bloody valentine and beach house.
Londoners echo lake have promised us a full length for ages, and here it is a jangly collection of warbling indie pop, the kind you might expect to find on a beach house record before they went mainstream. Listen free to echo lake wild peace further down, another day and more. The exchoir girls voice perfectly suited hills brian wilsonmeetsgalaxie 500 productions and they set about work on a new project. Era is far less pop centric than wild peace, this time round the songs are. Their debut ep young silence was released through no pain in pop in 2011 and their debut album wild peace was released in june 2012 through slumberland records and no pain in pop. Listen to your favorite songs from wild peace by echo lake now. Debut album wild peace was released in june 2012, after the then five piece had surfaced 18 months prior to a flurry of blog attention. The london bands longawaited slumberland debut is a collection of pure, dreamy indie rock laced with the more narcotic strains of shoegaze. Echo lake wild peace on june 26, slumberland will release the debut lp by south london shoegazers echo lake, wild peace no pain in pop will release it. Jarvis was a former choir girl and hill was a longtime fan of classic shoegaze and dream pop albums. Get all the lyrics to songs by echo lake and join the genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. With the aid of no pain in pop, they present their debut album, a floating body of sound set across ten tracks with hills dense walls of productions counteracting jarvis wraithlike layers of vocal. Wild peace debut album out now on slumberland records us and no pain in pop eu directed, edited and postproduced by dan nixon studio shoot.
Echo lake s laconic demeanor would have you initially believe wild peace isnt a bold record, but it does exude confidence in its own way. Echo lake wild peace and heres that first track we featured. The exchoirgirls voice perfectly suited hills brian wilsonmeetsgalaxie 500 productions and they set about work on a new project. Echo lake even the blind wild peace is out 626 via slumberland in north america, and a day earlier on no pain in pop in. A beautiful record, it was rightly lauded by critics but its release was tragically overshadowed by the death of drummer peter hayes. Wild peace is a considered, singular work brashly proving right all the hype. The delayed melody lingers a little bit before sharp organ tones and burnished guitars amble in, eventually coagulating into the lushly woozy album opener, further down. Expect some variation in final design and dimensions. While echo lake probably havent been around long enough to accrue expectations from a fan base, their new album, wild peace, which is due out june 26 on slumberland records, might surprise listeners who enjoyed the buzzy gloop that inundated last years young silence ep. Breathe even deeper wild peace is full of distant echoes and cosmic reverberations as if echo lake have found themselves somewhere high in the mountains and their sound is agreeably ambient and overarching.
Stream echo lake in dreams daytrotter session by echo lake from desktop or your mobile device. The most majestic of psychedelic pop from london shoegazers, echo lake, made up of thom hill and linda jarvis. Echo lake wild peace on lp echo lake formed late in 2010 after thom hill and linda jarvis met studying at art school in south london. Era is the second studio album by the indie pop band echo lake. Echo lake swimmers from wild peace, no pain in pop 2012. Find album release information for wild peace echo lake on allmusic.