A self-titled stunner of a debut album, Echomatica finds the New Zealand-based band excelling with a fervent, hooky mix of dreamy synths and memorable rock productions. Their trendy sound immersed on their debut single “Love Isn’t At all times” — which we featured in August — and the remainder of Echomatica’s album impresses equally, constantly dazzling in melodic structural ascents and heartfelt vocal emotion.
“Breathe” opens the album in stunning kind, easing in with a mild glow of keys that discover comforting accompaniments in glistening guitar twangs and delicate, nocturnal rhythmic backings. The monitor is an intensive show in ambiance, constructing from lushly understated intrigue right into a caressing array of guitar strums and starry-eyed entrancement. “Heartbeat” follows with a extra infectious immediacy, infusing pulsing rhythms and post-punk guitar trickling as prancing synths and magnetic vocals emerge alongside. The album’s riveting one-two commencing punch struts the band’s skill to craft each serene atmospherics and — within the case of “Heartbeat” — stirring hooks with upticks in vocal emotion.
One other spotlight enamors in “Technicolour Goals,” embracing fuzzy synths and jangling guitar interaction in its harmonious development. “If you’re subsequent to me, once we’re worlds aside,” the vocals let loose throughout an particularly memorable second, exuding a palpable craving because the vibe-y synths and guitars mingle. Album finale “Pretending We’re Human” can also be a showcase in its soundscape-heavy unveiling, sounding like a cross of Kate Bush’s vocal theatrics and Siouxsie and the Banshees’s foreboding vigor. Echomatica is an enthralling success of a full-length.
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“One thing” can also be featured within the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Rising Indie Rock.
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