Danger: this Echo Lake title-track has the potency to break listener’s down. Soon they will be tempted to call a significant other, a friend, or a past lover just to have someone near. This song is hard to listen to alone, and music this emotive holds the power that allows people to let down their guards and embrace. I believe that Echo Lake contains the positive, extroverted energy to bring people together.

Blinking organs awaken this bleary song just before the body-buzz distortion begins to hum below the vocals. Ex-choir girl Linda Jarvis melts with airy self-harmonizing. There is something very classic summer romance about the vocal melody, with support from the little rings of tremolo guitar and weeping strings. Perfectly-timed guitar appregios accentuate lovely. As with every other dream-pop/chill-wave/pedal-obsessive band, the vocals seem to remain sedated with effects and track layering which shift the lyrics out of focus and into an intoxicated blur.

Thom Hill and Linda Jarvis met at a London art school and soon Thom recorded some great, dense and deep music for Linda to beam her heavenly voice of equal proportion upon. The combination produced Echo Lake, a very panoramic sound that (during this song) succeeds in immersing. Hearing something so bright come out of a time of such arguable darkness is always astonishing, not that it is anything new. Echo Lake released their first EP Young Silence to receive much positive attention from the press. Their debut full album Wild Peace was released into the wild this past June. Echo Lake has cleaned up the sound production and is now crystal clear all the way to the bottom, even re-recording a few songs from the past EP for the album. There is so much love overflowing through some of these songs it hurts. The ending of “Another Day” picks up a tambourine jangle and sunny-crunch guitar lead outro that will put flower’s in your hair. 

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Alex Wolfe was a contributing writer to Jonk Music in 2012.