World Of Echo

I likes this a lot, though it was swinging the Art stick pretty hard (some numbers like The Name of the Next Song getting into full performance art territory - though I also found it pretty funny). I like it though - unabashed wierdo art, pretty ahead of its times. The artist's young death a sad coda when researching this. I'm in my 50s so I lived through it, but it can be easy to forget (now that it is mostly tamed if not outright cured... if, I suppose, you can access and afford and manage the care regimes) those bad year when AIDS was cutting a horrifying swath through a generation.

I decided today to listen to my album in the evening - something I never do; I normally listen to this shit at 5am. But today, randomly, I chose 8:30pm. For added context, I had a dose of my medicinal cannabis about 20 minutes ago. The medicinal cannabis has now alleviated both my back pain and most other bodily sensation, then dialled my imagination up to 11. And also today, randomly, my album is this psychedelic little number - which I am currently listening to on my noise-cancelling, sit-right-near-to-my-eardrum headphones in the dark. Russell and his producer understood the assignment. Sonically, it floats around inside your head - the panning of instruments, along with the ECHO (he said the thing!), really makes it feel like your skull cavity is a giant acoustic space, just ready to be filled with odd sounds, plings and plongs, something that could be a bass guitar played with a violin bow, sporadic wacked-out singing (it might be words, it might not, I dunno) and lots of really pointedly-empty noise. It's ridiculous and it's only borderline "actual music", but it's happy, silly and as trippy as it fucking gets. Definitely the most undeserved 4/5 I've handed out here.

This is art.

Chill, occasionally odd, moods. Very sparse. Was good for carving a pumpkin to!

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Tone bone kone, Soon-to-be innocent fun/Let’s see, Treehouse

It's interesting, but ultimately just not my thing. 3 stars.

Very artsy, but kind of enjoyed (?) it.

It does have a bit of anti flow about it, but is stylish enough. Not background music, that's for sure.

Mmmh … interesting maybe?

I enjoyed this. Really creative stuff and, apparently, Arthur Russell was quite ahead of his time. This has a certain fragmented and unfinished quality, and it's really longer than it needs to be, but it somehow still works. Thanks for recommending this. Fave Songs: Being It, See-Through, Tree House, Tone Bone Kone, Place I Know / Kid Like You, Lucky Cloud

Didn't really get anything special out of this. Not looking for anything unique, but it should have something that captures the attention or moves the soul or calms the spirit.

An interesting album. But not one that made me feel all that much. The mumbled vocals and distantly mixed instruments almost push you away from emotionally engaging with it. Probably deliberate, but meet me halfway, you know? Like the Velvet Underground at their most stubborn.

This is what I imagine Jack Dorsey or Aaron Rodgers listening to when they’re doing weird ayahuasca experiments in the wilderness. I wasn’t into it but I think if I did any intense hallucinogens I’d either love it to the point of it positively changing my life or hate it to the point of ruining my life. Also why does every song abruptly end.

What a frustrating listen – could’ve been a great amalgamation of experimental, industrial textures if it actually had any melodic content. Instead, the LP feels nearly threadbare and more a collection of assorted sounds than any real statements. There are bits and pieces of chords scattered about, and with some real melodic meat on its bones this could’ve been a pretty wild fusion of some different timbres. Instead, this just drags on forever without much reward for 70 minutes of your time.

...or: How to make 1hr09 seem like 3 hours.

Insane 2

I want to like this more, but the vocals ruin it for me.

Too weird!

It sounds like music designed for an astral "tripper." It made me feel lazy and melancholic, which are not very welcome emotions for music. Sorry, but it won't be for me.

Dub, ambient pop, electro-acoustic, experimental, art pop, outsider music. Tostonazo absurdo. Un 1.

World Of Echo? More like World Of Boring 80s Ambient Electonica. Rating: 1.5 Playlist track: See-Through Date listened: 21/11/24

No - mumble, murmur, bounce a bow on a string. I’m struggling to work out why you’ve chosen this, unless the submitter is in fact Arthur Russell!