Info: 'Echo The Red' is the debut album of Accü; Netherlands born musician and recording artist. The half Dutch half Welsh singer-songwriter moved to rural Carmarthenshire Wales as a child and went on to write in both English and Welsh. After moving around over the years she relocated back to Carmarthenshire to complete her debut album, where she recorded and mixed it in her caravan.
ACCÜ says -"'Echo The Red' was a phrase much needed at a time when no other such phrases existed in the vocabulary of the tongue but did in the heart. For me it is the 'thenceforth' to the brief 'ever after'. It is the pulling up of socks lubricated by tears. It is loved ones lost followed by the inflated chest. The inner shift and the outer mirror.
There is a hell of a lot to enjoy on the debut album Echo The Red from experimental electronic act ACCÜ, there's a plentiful amount of diversity in both the sounds used, tempo and mood. 'Libertosis' provides the first hints, scratching electro sounds crawl across a ponderous synth progression in the most hypnotic of fashions, ACCÜ pouring all of them together in the smallest of spaces for maximum effect.
The bait is laid early with second track 'Ha-Ha Higher', very difficult to listen to the opening bars here and not decide that you want to hear the rest of the album already. It has that quintessentially alternative Welsh psychedelic feel, little bit BETA Band, little bit Doves Lost Souls, it's quite magical, the spell is cast.
'Did You Count Your Eyes?' nails down a trip-hop and downtempo character with such ease, and now the psych-sounds are in full flow, ACCÜ's vocal calling from the other side of this alternate reality, it's impressive how such a chill track can still manage to eschew a slow-burning and uplifting energy as it progresses. Previous single 'Am Sêr' ('I Am') sheds that little bit of warm autumn sunshine in through the edge of the curtains, mellow and jovial in equal measure.
ACCÜ says -"'Echo The Red' was a phrase much needed at a time when no other such phrases existed in the vocabulary of the tongue but did in the heart. For me it is the 'thenceforth' to the brief 'ever after'. It is the pulling up of socks lubricated by tears. It is loved ones lost followed by the inflated chest. The inner shift and the outer mirror.
There is a hell of a lot to enjoy on the debut album Echo The Red from experimental electronic act ACCÜ, there's a plentiful amount of diversity in both the sounds used, tempo and mood. 'Libertosis' provides the first hints, scratching electro sounds crawl across a ponderous synth progression in the most hypnotic of fashions, ACCÜ pouring all of them together in the smallest of spaces for maximum effect.
The bait is laid early with second track 'Ha-Ha Higher', very difficult to listen to the opening bars here and not decide that you want to hear the rest of the album already. It has that quintessentially alternative Welsh psychedelic feel, little bit BETA Band, little bit Doves Lost Souls, it's quite magical, the spell is cast.
'Did You Count Your Eyes?' nails down a trip-hop and downtempo character with such ease, and now the psych-sounds are in full flow, ACCÜ's vocal calling from the other side of this alternate reality, it's impressive how such a chill track can still manage to eschew a slow-burning and uplifting energy as it progresses. Previous single 'Am Sêr' ('I Am') sheds that little bit of warm autumn sunshine in through the edge of the curtains, mellow and jovial in equal measure.
I love, love 'Bonnie Be Real', from the heart-beat beat! to the celestial synths and effects, conjuring a vision of the stars in the sky rotating slowly, and then going into reverse. This is a good example on the album of the diversity mentioned previously, and a reflection of the many ideas that came from the artist's mind, and made there way on to the album.
Current single 'Crash to Kill' is enchanting, feel-good catchy escapism at its best, I would go as far as saying, that musically it is smile-inducing, I actually genuinely feel inner happiness listening to this song, and that's in spite of it's theme which looks at misfortune as a sometimes necessary process in order to rebuild again and be all the better for it ultimately.
Tame Impala vibes abound on closing track 'Hay Hitting', a warped retro-filled trip that makes good use of that old school Moog-like analog sound effect which was also present on 'Libertosis', in my opinion it's a track that is primed for the option of a remix also. All in all Echo The Red is an album for fans of experimental electronic music, both from the past and the present, so many traits delivered expertly and more importantly, it feels like the listener is at the heart of it all.
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