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Echo Bloom - I Met God

from I Met God by "SONGS & WHISPERS"

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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.”

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

I Met God" releases on Friday, 02.07.2021. The album Wake follows up on Friday, 03.09.2021. Pre-save your copy of the album under orcd.co/echobloom_wake please.

(Text: Alex Haager | publicdisplaypr.com)

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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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from I Met God, released July 2, 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.

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