echolyn (2012)

Wolfhound wrote: Being new to the forums I am quit late to this thread but I just got this album tonight and I LOVE IT!!! This just skyrocketed to one of my favorite albums of all time.

Wait until you hear Mei!!

Ok, I will, thank you ;)

I think that this album is simply the best of the year, and maybe also the best in the last 7-8 years, it is a challenge between this one and Haken's two albums. I love the relaxed mood of the songs (especially Past Gravity, which is surely my favourite), but the thing that I love more is that even having a great technique, Echolyn never delivers useless solos to make the listener understand that they are great musicians, you can understand it only by listening to the great arrangements and to the fantastic alchemy they can recreate together.

Unfortunately I don't have anything else by them, which other are their best albums?

Still won't vote yet, but it's looking like it might be "When Sunday Spills."  I can never rip that one out of my head (but that's true for much of this thing).

Voted for When Sunday Spills, my favorite currently for having emotional effect of lampblack and the melodies and songwriting of Island. Also those clips at the beginning and especially the end are absolutely chilling.

Still need to listen to this.

Two lines keep resonating with me:

One is Ray's hopeful negativity:

"Don't give another day to this."

And another is Bret's hopeless positivity.

"Love will make you wait till you're found; it carries you home."


Edited by Epignosis - July 16 2012 at 22:42

I'd say Some Memorial, I've had the line "Take a headful of seeds/ and a mouthful of dirt/ lie down/ become a garden" playing in my head for weeks now  It's such a great song in many ways. Island, Speaking In Lampblack and Headright are very very good as well. Strangely the other songs don't hit me nearly as well as those, so I gave it 4 stars.

Epignosis wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Speaking in Lampblack is not bad What do you think of the album ? I've never been really fond of Echolyn.  It's okay but doesn't stand out much to me. Glad i'm not the only one. It really bothers me that a band that i respect for their lyrics didn't include them in the liner notes. Normally i could care less about lyrics but there are certain bands who write such good songs like Echolyn where i do pay attention to them. And i know i can probably find them on the internet but that's not the point. I think it's a good album but maybe it's just been overhyped i don't know. I'll keep listening though because they say it's a grower. Just in case you're curious, you can go here, mouse over the song title, and the link for the lyrics will appear.  But I get your frustration.

Mellotron Storm wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Mellotron Storm wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Speaking in Lampblack is not bad What do you think of the album ? I've never been really fond of Echolyn.  It's okay but doesn't stand out much to me. Glad i'm not the only one. It really bothers me that a band that i respect for their lyrics didn't include them in the liner notes. Normally i could care less about lyrics but there are certain bands who write such good songs like Echolyn where i do pay attention to them. And i know i can probably find them on the internet but that's not the point. I think it's a good album but maybe it's just been overhyped i don't know. I'll keep listening though because they say it's a grower.

Just in case you're curious, you can go here, mouse over the song title, and the link for the lyrics will appear.  But I get your frustration.