Echoes | Black LP THE LEMON TWIGS

Echoes | Black LP THE LEMON TWIGSThe Rapture Echoes Black LP Release date: 21. 10. 2003 The revelation that you didnt need formal training to start a band in 1977 and the realization that you dont need to be Merce Cunningham to dance are one and the same. Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork, 2003 47 minutes. Two sides. A single spine jacket. Confident and deliberate. Lightning in a bottle. The Raptures Echoes was and is a clear eyed kick in the teeth, a band at the peak of their powers and

" which found it's way onto the esteemed pages of Pitchfork and Altered Zones a mere matter of weeks after the group's formation

and meaningful blend of acoustic guitar

is a mesmerizing four to the floor tune constructed around an Indian raga sample

ambient passages

Each track on Javelin starts intimately: the trickle of an acoustic guitar

a 20-person choir and 17 songs overlaid with a compositional score written by Washington

though it'll be difficult to determine whether that's simply because the peregrinations of the last album have prepared them for the trips to the outer limits taken here

A dynamic set of urgent funkers

the minutiae of life percolated through layers of accordion

It was around then that Explosions In The Sky was approached to craft the score to a new documentary about a place with which

performed as the backbone of Yoko Ono’s reformed Plastic Ono Band

Peter Hook