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Wake

by Echo Bloom

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1.
3 Little Birds 04:31
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--- 3 Little Birds --- Noone saw Nobody heard Noone was there except a few lost birds The red wine sea Flooded the town Blood and water the only sound Stragglers left Boarded up homes Thinking they're better off on their own Nothing to eat Nothing around Nothing much left in the empty town Except three little birds On a telephone line Drying their wings in the dead sunshine No more fruit No more leaves No more bark on the suicide trees Just gold and pearls Dinosaur bones colors all washed to monochrome We made a home Out in the hills Took what I could from a dead landfill All blown out tires Particle board Made the walls out of old car doors While three little birds Marking the time Drying their wings in the dead sunshine I wonder what The people look like Singing the songs that i hear at night Their skin so pale Kerosene eyes Guess it sounds like a lullaby For cities to rest Crumble and sleep Pray for the lord my soul to keep I can be light I can be whole Instead of staring at a telephone pole Where three little birds Up on the line Drying their wings in the dead sunshine Told my son You're never alone We'll build a bed out of mud and bone I fell asleep Out in the rain Dreamed that we found an aeroplane With two big wings Silver and proud Made our home up in the clouds We'd live again Never come down Circling over our empty town Like three little birds Up in the sky Drying their wings in the dead sunshine
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Fools Gold 04:00
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--- Fool's Gold --- One for the road Steadying my hand Here's to everyone that's been at sea so long they've forgotten dry land You're my northern star You were everything You were the song I hummed but couldn't bear to sing I drove all around town thinking of you Waited up all night thinking of you Because I found without you near Suddenly it's clear to me Everybody that I knew, compared to you they're Nothing but fool's gold One for the road After 15 years I guess I'm still surprised to find that you're not here Someday I'll think of you as the better part of me and not as just another promise that I couldn't keep I drove all around town thinking of you Waited up all night thinking of you Because I found without you near Suddenly it's clear to me Everybody that I knew, compared to you they're Nothing but fool's gold
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Corsica 04:55
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--- Corsica --- Are you the man that lived with me on Corsica so many years ago? That man was taller than you his sunken shoulders didn't show the things that time remembers but memory withholds But I remember pennywhistles, frankincense, and cardomom and sage and how we knew each other less and less with every passing day because despite our best intentions all the color bled away You know I never wondered why I guess I didn't mind You're still this thing I never knew I guess that I am too You painted me a portrait of a person you remembered from the train in a soaking wet tuxedo with his head up to the rain and hung it up in our apartment in a wooden picture frame Now and then I thought about that picture and of who we were before and how we spent our better years simply waiting to be born hiding under our umbrellas, seeking shelter from the storm You know I never wondered why I guess I didn't mind You're still this thing I never knew I guess that I am too
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Beautiful Day 06:51
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--- Beautiful Day --- On the news, early morning Hadn't even left my bed Took a minute through the crying 'Til I made out what they said There was an accident at dawn Both sides have launched their bombs It was a beautiful day Wandered out with a coffee While my neighbor mowed his lawn Only had 20 minutes 'Til the seaboard would be gone The pollen made me rub my eyes Not a cloud was in the sky It was a beautiful day Gotten used to thinking everything's the same But I finally stopped hoping for the day I could look around and find that everything had changed Now, finally Walked into a supermarket Drifted through the empty store Through the blue fluorescent lighting That's reflecting on the floor The backwards boxes in a row I never noticed them before It was a beautiful day Gotten used to thinking everything's the same But I finally stopped hoping for the day I could look around and find that everything had changed Now, finally The missles blotted out the sky I never thought to wonder why It was a beautiful day
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Don't You Wanna Be Loved 04:08
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--- Don't You Want to be Loved? --- Woke in a suburban home Comfortable and monochrome Can't remember how or why I'm here Wander down the empty hall Smiling family on the walls See my face in every frame And I want it to be me Don't you want to be loved All the light I cannot see All the colors on TV All the things I want to be I want it to be me Don't you want to be loved Maybe it could be today?
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John the Revelator 04:51
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--- John the Revelator --- John the Revelator's got a big night Knuckles taped for his last fight Two hands as shotguns Two hands as wings Shaking for the moment that bell rings Right cross, circling prey Cracked ribs and broken vertebrae Make me a hammer Make me a blade Let me judge the wicked from the saved John the Revelator lasted 10 rounds Never been afraid to take a hit Dried blood and sweat and spit Just you let him near you Show him your face He'll show you the glory and the grace John the Revelator lasted 10 rounds He can feel the angels circling He can taste the floor of the ring It was a bloodbath It was a rout John the revelator got knocked out John the Revelator lasted 10 rounds
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Anaphora 05:01
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--- Anaphora --- West of Flint and out of gas we spent the night in sleeping bags shivering in your brother's car Woke and found the windows white We'd waited for the snow all night but fell asleep before it came Think that I've forgotten life's so easy Just look for love everyday Take your time and try to find the beauty In everything on the way It's easy Figured out the car was stuck So thought that we would try our luck At the frontdoor of the nearest house Noone answering our knock So found a key under a rock and let ourselves in from the cold Felt like coming home Think that I've forgotten life's so easy Just look for love everyday Take your time and try to find the beauty In everything on the way It's easy I don't want to go So why don't we stay a while Stayed inside the house all day and watched the winter melt away and drip against the windowpane Every leaf on every tree In the sun and glistening Perfect in the afternoon Think that I've forgotten life's so easy Just look for love everyday Take your time and try to find the beauty In everything on the way It's easy
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I Met God 05:17
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--- I Met God On An Overpass --- I saw God on a grimy overpass Carrying a sign and blowing kisses at Sunburned girls/boys in air conditioned cars Passing by on Sunset Boulevard Though he hadn't shaved for several weeks A shimmer shined around his bearded cheeks Fascinated watched him until he Fascinated was staring back at me I believe we can all be new again amen is what he said to me I collapsed, blinded on the road my soul was lighter than the bones inside a robin's wing everything is everything I know that I’m a broken megaphone And every place I’ve ever called my home Got forgotten somewhere on the way Everything’s remembered when you say I believe we can all be new again my friend is what he said to me We'll forget everything we know our souls are lighter than the bones inside a robin's wing everything is everything
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Maybe We'll Fly 04:37
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--- Maybe We'll Fly --- Dreamed that we made a constellation styrofoam planets and tin foil stars Cassiopeia strung out of twine I could give you everything Made another planet we could live on cellophane oceans and beer bottle trees ten thousand rainbows glued to the sky I could give you everything Maybe we'll fly Higher than high Baby I'll try Maybe I'll go back to Modesto / Alabama The great emancipator is a year or two Stars that we notice flicker and fade disappeared a million years ago Maybe we'll fly Higher than high Baby I'll try We'll make a home Glitter and gold never grow old Because we've got nothing but time water and wine Baby I'll try
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ShortWave 03:38
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--- Shortwave and the End of the World --- There ain't a whole lot after the war that I believe in In fact I'm pretty sure I'm the only thing living Spend my evenings scanning over the shortwave Last night through a burst of static I heard a voice say Hey Mr. DJ, play my number Hey Mr. DJ, play my number now Play it on the radio station Send my song blasting through the night You can make everything all right I broke into an abandoned transmitter relay Sifted through the ash and the rubble for an album to play I hope my signal punches through the radiation So you can hear your song request with my dedication Picked up my headphones Turned up the sound and I Dropped the needle watched my record spinning round Play it on the radio station Send my song blasting through the night You can make everything all right

about

It is a bright, spring day. Your morning cup of coffee is warm in your hands as you turn on the TV to find that there has been a nuclear accident, and everything you know and love will be gone in twenty minutes. You look outside at your suburban neighborhood and suddenly, your world is no longer your own.

This is the scene that sets in motion Echo Bloom’s Wake, a vast, colorful portrait of a universe that feels eerily similar to our own. Principal songwriter Kyle Evans weaves tales of the onset and aftermath of environmental apocalypse, of disillusionment with the American Dream, of ghosts from a far away past, again and again exploring what it means to be a stranger in your own home, your own neighborhood, your own life.

“There’s a degree of removal and disassociation. I think to a certain extent that is kind of how I feel right now,” Evans says of the music, which was in part inspired by the current political climate, where the systematic destruction of the natural world continues to unfold. “There’s this vague sense of existential dread just pounding away at us day after day.”

Evans, who grew up spending his summers camping across the American Southwest with his family in an old Ford Aerostar, cites his acute connection to nature as an impetus for illustrating his bleak, yet vibrant, post-apocalyptic realm. His voice punctuates a lush palette of guitars and keys with deliberate lyricism, building an alternate reality that bristles with emotion and depth.

In the searing Don’t You Want to Be Loved, Evans lingers on the collapse of a much smaller world. Tracing the morning of an unnamed narrator as they wander through their own home, Evans paints a desperate portrait of an individual who has come face to face with the American Dream, and doesn’t know how they got there.

“There have been moments in my life where I've seen the breadth of the future arranged before me in some wave of neatly ordered, predictable fence posts.” Evans says. “It’s always been something that’s filled me simultaneously with a warm sense of certainty, and a hollow sense of dread.”

It is in that push and pull between security and terrifying predictability that the song exists, shifting from the lonely walk through
a house of strangers, to the unabashed desire to belong within it. “Wander down the empty hall / Smiling family on the walls / See my face in every frame,” Evans delivers, a chill in his voice as he dives into the urgent chorus: “And I want it to be me / Don’t you want to be loved?”

Wake was produced by Kevin Salem (Rachel Yamagata, Yo La Tengo) and Kyle Evans, and was recorded between Woodstock, NY, and Brooklyn, NY. It features Kyle Evans, Aviva Jaye, Cody Rahn, and Alex Minier. Since forming in 2012, Echo Bloom has released three studio records and have toured extensively across the US and Europe. They have been featured in American Songwriter, and Paste.

Wake is following the album Blue and Red released by the label “SONGS & WHISPERS” (www.songsandwhispers.com).

"Dont You Want To Be Loved" is the first single of the upcoming album Wake.Wake releases Friday, 03.09,.2021

Pre-save your copy of the single under orcd.co/dontyouwannabeloved and the album under orcd.co/echobloom_wake please.

"A band that can’t help but tell the story of our times, while cloaking it in ambient beauty."

Dan Shaw, Happy Mag

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released September 3, 2021

Wake was produced by Kevin Salem (Rachel Yamagata, Yo La Tengo) and Kyle Evans, and was recorded between Woodstock, NY, and Brooklyn, NY. It features Kyle Evans, Aviva Jaye, Cody Rahn, and Alex Minier. Since forming in 2012, Echo Bloom has released three studio records and have toured extensively across the US and Europe. They have been featured in American Songwriter, and Paste.

Wake is following the album Blue and Red released by the label “SONGS & WHISPERS” (www.songsandwhispers.com).

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The international music network “SONGS & WHISPERS” is providing market entry opportunities for emerging artists worldwide. The network consists of the following departments: Record label, music publisher, booking agent and tour management services, promoter, PR agent and publicist, production company, photo and video unit and a recording studio with on location services. ... more

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