Breathe

UCall

RatherHaveU

TearingMeApart

EP1 is a 4 track release that retains the distinctive hallmarks of Echolines’ sound, but reaches deeper into ‘80’s indie territory to evolve and develop some electronic themes. The story of the EP traces the development of technological innovation and its impact on our lives and how it has started to erode some of the basic qualities that make us human.
Track 1 of this 4-track EP... ReadyPlayerOne is the archetypal “slow-burner” when it comes to song evolution. Almost 2 years in the making, the original idea came about when Jon’s Teenage-Engineering PO-20 synth, and Charlie’s interpretation of Ernest Cline’s book, met in the rehearsal room.
The idea was first floated towards the end of the recording of the debut album, Breathe, and was a conscious choice to introduce a different element to the song writing and compositional process. Multiple iterations of the melody, structure and even instruments were tried, with nothing quite able to condense the emotion and energy of the song into 4 minutes. It wasn’t until the final piece of the jigsaw, the song ending, was written that the band finally built a structure that they were happy with.
ReadyPlayerOne is a journey back to the early days of computer gaming, a more naïve time where 8 bit technology developed characters and games that had positive objectives; you shot at mythical aliens, or delivered papers or won Olympic games. There was no choice, you were the good guy.

LYRICS:
Valkyrie has taken on the poison
Shoot down spiders from the top
Oh now the paperboy’s forgotten
Ready Player One to start

Can’t get the power for my Delorean
1.21 Giga Watts
I solved Falken’s maze before you
Ready Player One to start

Where’ve you gone my pixel world...
can you see reality burns?
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Echolines EP 2018

ReadyPlayerOne

EP1 is a 4 track release that retains the distinctive hallmarks of Echolines’ sound, but reaches deeper into ‘80’s indie territory to evolve and develop some electronic themes. The story of the EP traces the development of technological innovation and its impact on our lives and how it has started to erode some of the basic qualities that make us human.
Track 3 of this 4-track EP... FridayNight, came into being as an idea for a simple guitar + vocal track. However, once the song was played back to the rest of the band, and worked on in collaboration with Anth Mills and Lisa Murphy of Blast Studios, Newcastle, it quickly evolved into the nearest thing Echolines do to a “lighters out” moment! It has now become a firm fixture in the live set, generally when the lads need a breather!
Evolving the theme of the EP, the song considers how social media has changed the way that relationships are viewed and develop; how online over-sexualisation and the pressure to adhere to inflated standards and body images that are perceived as the norm, have altered the most basic of our human attributes of desire, love, tolerance and the acceptance of the differences between us.

FridayNight

EP1 is a 4 track release that retains the distinctive hallmarks of Echolines’ sound, but reaches deeper into ‘80’s indie territory to evolve and develop some electronic themes. The story of the EP traces the development of technological innovation and its impact on our lives and how it has started to erode some of the basic qualities that make us human.
Track 4 of this 4-track EP... DarkThoughts is the second track on the EP that started life as a bedroom project with an electronic bassline. It turned into a bit of epic jam session in the rehearsal room, with every iteration being a slightly different version of the previous one. It wasn’t until Anth Mills got hold of it in the studio did it start to evolve into a more coherent song, with Lisa Murphy adding backing harmonies. 
Lyrically, the story is a very simple one, ending the story by challenging the listener to reflect on how their lives have been affected by the insidious nature of social media, and whether the dark thoughts of the narrator can be reflected in their own.

DarkThoughts

EP1 is a 4 track release that retains the distinctive hallmarks of Echolines’ sound, but reaches deeper into ‘80’s indie territory to evolve and develop some electronic themes. The story of the EP traces the development of technological innovation and its impact on our lives and how it has started to erode some of the basic qualities that make us human.
Track 2 of this 4-track EP... CloudCity, is in stark contrast to Track 1 and started life as the opening guitar riff which Rich played to the rest of band during a lull in rehearsals. After about an hour, the various elements of the song seemed to organically evolve and the song was complete. Within a week it was added to the live set, and is now one of the opening tracks at most live shows.
Lyrically, one interpretation of the song takes the idea of RP1 and evolves it through time, creating a metaphor for the online world that so many people now inhabit. The CloudCity is a habitat made up of social media, online gaming and chat rooms where lives are lived vicariously, friends are never met and are fleeting, and your sense of worth is based on the number of approvals from people you neither know or trust.

CloudCity

Debut Album "Breathe" released across all digital media channels on 23rd December 2017.