Echolalia- S/T

In the bone-quiet of Chale Abbey Studios—a 12th-century monastic relic perched on the Isle of Wight, far from Nashville’s garish glow—Echolalia hemmed their self-titled debut, a spectral tangle of sound birthed by pedal steel conjurer Spencer Cullum and a modest constellation of Tennessee musical mavericks. The record melds the pastoral and the psychedelic into something tender yet feral—a document of friends unmoored, tracing strange currents through fog-consumed fields, unbound by the strictures of charts, headphones, or Music Row’s gleaming machinery.

David Walker