"This one might've been in us from the start", says John Hancock. He's talking about 'Echos'

'This one might've been in us from the start', says John Hancock. He's talking about 'Echos' - his, Becky Williams, Finn Bjarnson & Ryan Raddon seventh Late Night Alumni longform.
Predominantly known for blending electronic and organic elements into their music, the album represents a departure from the band's largely house-led sound. An all-acoustic affair, in many ways though 'Echos' is a natural extension of LNA's DNA. 'Most of our songs', John continues, 'are written in the organic/acoustic realm and then produced with electronic flavours to create our sound. In those intimate song beginnings though, there's a magic all its own. We've long wanted to do an album that captured and augmented that initial intimacy.'
Which is indeed what Becky, John, Finn & Ryan have now done. The quartet have dug back into their twenty-year, six-album history and selected eleven tracks that they felt could most benefit from this song-spotlighting treatment. With their original acoustic intros as cues, they've taken them to their natural conclusions. A Sliding Doors-type feast for LNA enthusiasts both new and established, or indeed all lovers of downtempo, downtime, live instrumentation-led music.

'Echos' embarkation point is 'Beautiful', which originally featured on the band's 2005 debut album. Initially piano-threaded, halfway in it reaches an emotional tipping point, as LNA allow strings to swell through its production. Begging the question 'when is a cover version not a cover version?!', the album moves onto an acoustic retelling of Ryan 'Kaskade' Raddon's '4 AM'. Already co-written by his fellow Late Night Alums, here, '4 AM's adopts a more break-of-dawn type feel. Dropping a pin on more latter Late Night times, 'Even As I Go' (from 2019's 'Silver' LP) applies a touch more of the orchestral and cinematic tones to its acoustics. '

Track Listing

• Beautiful
• 4AM
• Even As I Go
• Gemini
• Love Is A Knife
• You Can Be The One
• Mine
• Empty Streets
• The Rest Of You
• Sapphire
• Window

Additional Details

Label: Alumni Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Run Time: 47:00 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/27/23

UPC: 808798293709