First rate synthpop with faith based lyrics.| Posted September 28, 2007
I normally don't listen to much synthpop, truth be told I haven't really looked to discover such bands but when I found out about this band, boy was it a good discovery.
The Echoing Green is a synthpop band that has been around for nearly ten years and their latest album "The Winter of Our Discontent" solidfies this band as a great indie synthpop band in the christian music scence.
But what sets them apart? Frontman Jeoey Bellville draws inspiration from similar sounding 90's bands such as depeche mode and crafts an album worthy of being called the best in the genre. No two tracks sound alike. The tendency with these kind of albums is that they can be repetitive with each song having the same repetitive beat (ever heard of a eiffel65 album?).
This Cd however stays clear of repitition and starts of with the bright and ambient "Story of our live", a song about the home of one day reaching heaven. From here the album trails into dark and murk territory in "fall awake" a track about watching a close lived one fall away and get lost in the darkness. The similar sounding "blind" explores the effects and downfall brough about by submission to sin. But whereas the album at times experiments with dark themes and sounds it equally makes up for it with bouncy synthpop songs ("Apology" and "starling") and ambient ballads ("someday and "winter"). It all sounds great and is sophisticated synthpop and elctronica.
The lyrical themes further add some depth to the album with songs of the hopefound in God while here on earth.
Overall this is a great album with a great sound and some very deep and hopeful lyrics.
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