Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard bring a piece of Brooklyn cool to the table with their debut album Echoes. The record is a darkly rich collection of moods best enjoyed in a large loft-style apartment at four in the morning.
Graced with the efforts of a diverse range of musical pioneers including Lou Rhodes, Romy Madley Croft (XX), and Tricky, Echoes is a testament to the act of collaboration. As a whole, this is a fine set of ideas executed with skill and nonchalance by kids who know what they’re doing.
From the ethereal introduction, the album unveils into a tapestry of ambient concepts. Between sleepy morphine moments and spacious rolling grooves, Echoes is an album that deserves the effort of a few plays in order to fully grasp its nature. Its lastability lies in the overriding warmth of the tone structure and discoverable subtlety in its many layers.
Echoes brings clean sounding synths, sharp vocals, and low registers that are best supported by quality speakers. If the strings were real, an entirely new level would have been reached – but, as it is, this album hints at Tchaikovsky and better days of Massive Attack, so that compensates enough.
Although it can carry-on at times, Echoes is a mix between come-down cool and goth-hop sexy that is well worth having in your collection. For those moments when you know you will appreciate it the most (and let’s face it, we all have those moments), an album like this can provide a pleasant soundtrack of reassurance.
Listen to ‘Vertigo’ (feat. Lou Rhodes) here:
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