Our obsession with ECKOES seems to grow with every listen! We previously featured her single, Human, and as soon as we learned that the talented creator was back with Amnesia, and Lose My Mind, we couldn’t wait to listen and share our experience.

Amnesia holds a hypnotic energy with a trippy bassline and a cerebral glitched middle eight that showcases the star’s operatic vocals, intertwined with a subversive, minimalist vibe. The overarching spiritual tech-pop vibe is sublime.

Speaking on the release, ECKOES confesses, “Amnesia is about [when] you start talking to an ex again. Fooling yourself that maybe it was just the wrong time, they’ve changed, there were such good times, then they do something that reminds you exactly why you’re not together anymore, and you snap out of it. That selective amnesia.”

Lose My Mind taps into a futuristic tribal frequency with a mantra-esque delivery of the hook. We appreciate the dimensionality of the track, and the sensual journey that ECKOES takes us on. She tells us, “Lose My Mind is an ode to the club. That feeling when you hear your jam come on and you look at your friends and you all scream and run to the dance floor. Music’s so powerful – it’s like a summons that takes over your body. It’s magic.”

We love how ECKOES manifests this experience with trippy production, her stunning vocal timbre with evocative prose and the mind-bending artworks created with Sue Realist. We have added both songs to our New Music Spotlight playlist, and our new TRIPPY playlist, whilst we continue to stream the wider discography of ECKOES!

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Happy Friday kids. South London (yes, fam) newcomer MEI just dropped a really vocally clean and emotionally provoking debut with Sandstorm. It’s a really transportive track laced with the lyrics “where do we go” with sonic notes set against the pyramids of Giza almost. The Count Counsellor produced track sees the progressive and experimental MEI’s desert epilogue set the tone for hopefully more to come.

Written on her return from Coachella, Lana’s Coachella – Woodstock In My Mind is a woke narrative-driven that we can all relate to from not being able to enjoy the finer things in life because of the current state of world affairs.

Finally, here’s Human by Eckoes which premiered on Wonderland Magazine last week. The track is centred around the Dr Maya Angelou poem “I Am Human” with intricate production and emotion with a really timeless pop sensibility.

“Every human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born…”

https://soundcloud.com/iameckoes/human

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