The Echo Session - Wait And See

It seems like a long wait to hear these songs, as the good people of the Flowers in the Dustbin label have been teasing this album for over a year. But even if the wait was longer than we desired, consider the lads of The Echo Session. The Glasgow band, led by songwriter/vocalist Tam Maher, recorded these songs in the middle of the previous decade but were unable to gain label support for the release of an album. Fortunately, FitD stepped up a couple of years ago to release a single consisting of this album's showcase opening and closing tracks, and now has graced us with the ten-song Wait And See. The promise was an album that sounds like a long-lost doppelganger of the one and only album by The La's, with reminders of The Kinks as well. And in our view the finished product delivers with a strike to the bulls-eye. In particular, songs like "Down By The River", "Dear Old Sam" and "Sunshine in the Morning" sound like The La's and The Kinks got together in a back room after a Glasgow gig and hammered out a couple of future hits. For their part, the aforementioned bookend songs "But I'm Scared" (our favorite of the set) and "Wait and See", along with "Mystery Man" and "Barapba", have the charming earworm quality of '60s AM radio folk rock hits.

One run through this album and your heart will tell you that these are old, favorite song from your youth that you are thrilled to have rediscovered, even though your brain and the liner notes tell you that this is the first time (and maybe liner notes are the new fake news ...). But it really doesn't matter, as you have them now and they will be yours forever. Well, assuming that you hit the Bandcamp link below, they will be yours forever.








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