Echofission - "the straights"
In their fifth year together, and 3rd album, Echofission seems destined for a big breakthrough with their new CD, "the straights". This album sees them moving away from the more fast passed jam rock and roll of their last disc, "amplify the sun", and really finding themselves with some very moving artistic, emotionally stirring indie rock, with some incredible harmonies to boot. It's not that this album is necessarily mellower than their previous CD, although at times it is, so much as it's just showed more growth in their songwriting to a level that is both catchy enough to be considered pop, but in a wonderfully artistic way that just blows me away the more I listen.
As any regular reader of my reviews knows, I like albums that are actual albums, with a flow to it. In this day and age with MP3 players so popular, many people do not listen to full CDs from beginning to end anymore. "The straights", is an album that begs to be heard from beginning to end in order to hear the true brilliance of this album.
That's not to say that these songs don't stand well on their own...let's say the songs on this album are ice cream, and the album is like an ice cream sundae with toppings and whip cream. Ice cream is good, but an ice cream sundae is even better.
"The straights", reminds me, in a way, of early albums from The Samples. However, Echofission has managed to create something even more special, an album that, in my opinion, is destined to be looked back on years from now as a "classic album". It is already one of my favorites of this year.
www.echofission.com
In their fifth year together, and 3rd album, Echofission seems destined for a big breakthrough with their new CD, "the straights". This album sees them moving away from the more fast passed jam rock and roll of their last disc, "amplify the sun", and really finding themselves with some very moving artistic, emotionally stirring indie rock, with some incredible harmonies to boot. It's not that this album is necessarily mellower than their previous CD, although at times it is, so much as it's just showed more growth in their songwriting to a level that is both catchy enough to be considered pop, but in a wonderfully artistic way that just blows me away the more I listen.
As any regular reader of my reviews knows, I like albums that are actual albums, with a flow to it. In this day and age with MP3 players so popular, many people do not listen to full CDs from beginning to end anymore. "The straights", is an album that begs to be heard from beginning to end in order to hear the true brilliance of this album.
That's not to say that these songs don't stand well on their own...let's say the songs on this album are ice cream, and the album is like an ice cream sundae with toppings and whip cream. Ice cream is good, but an ice cream sundae is even better.
"The straights", reminds me, in a way, of early albums from The Samples. However, Echofission has managed to create something even more special, an album that, in my opinion, is destined to be looked back on years from now as a "classic album". It is already one of my favorites of this year.
www.echofission.com