Echo Is Your Love ‎– Heart Fake CD

Echo Is Your Love ‎– Heart Fake CD

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Echo Is Your Love ‎– Heart Fake CD

"Echo Is Your Love has grown into an adult! Oh how so? Well, in the way that the 12-year-old band’s recent Fifth Long Play is clearly more serene and rather contemplative than an aggressively intrusive. In many contexts, indulgence is a negative image, but despite its “calming down,” the Echos have not lost a single piece of their impact or hooks. Rather, it is not all just a gloomy, desperate cry for help from the corner of a dark room, but one has gotten out of there and already knows how to deal with anger and horror from a certain distance of experience. In other words, a miserable childhood has been spent and everything is no longer so black and white and miserable - behind the cloud edge there is also a little light, even warmth.

The band, which has been showing perfect pop melodies to guitar noise and angular rhythms for over a decade, hasn’t changed its basic formula, which is a good thing. There is such a bloody, lively and still challenging grip on the song pen, the playing and the song of Nea that what these weapons have on the go? The stronger major and even hopeful look of the previous recordings at certain points actually only gives the dark-skinned blow more sharpness. Although the form is not a tug of war but a look at the stars and shouting into space, EIYL is still shocking and aggressive enough not to oppress mere sentimental dreaming. It vibrates beneath the surface, sometimes with waves. This latent violence is succinctly summed up by the opening track of Someone Took Advantage Of Her’s bursting change of pace between songs.

Sure, beauty has been present in the Echo formula from the beginning, but very dark, dull, and barren like that. Implemented with a slightly brighter grip, the encounter of a pop melody with a trailing distortion is smoother and allows the listener to focus on the beauty of the arc. Despite the bitter aching of the playing, the overall picture is not bleak but hopeful. While listening to the pamperingly beautiful One Perfect Second - focus on the beauty of the moment, loving. Representing the more tricky Echo, Lion Tamer vs. Tigers, previously released on the EP, is one of the album's hit songs with its swirls. The uplifting Silver Sufferer brings a nice counterweight to the fiercer side, the curving Moon Is Dead lifts a smile to his lips in a beautiful arc despite his dark jerk. The material is uniformly strong and there are no dips. Actually, just the final track We Celebrate Life’s machine rhythm, painted with ball keyboards and soft vocals feels a little loose in relation to the rest of the material, even though it works just as well as a song. Properly qualified recording." - Ilkka Valpasvuo