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Jul 16, 2012What the south London quintet have made is an album full of delicious dream-pop.
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Jul 6, 2012It's muggy and consuming in the way that using 96 effects pedals at once will be, but there's a vital sweetness that shines through.
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Jul 3, 2012[At times on Wild Peace] you might wonder if Echo Lake are merely a caricature of every previous shoegaze and dream-pop outfit. What saves the duo is how splendidly their iridescent sounds can evoke a moment, allowing listeners to lose themselves in the music.
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Jun 28, 2012One of the best records of the year.
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Jun 27, 2012A dazzling mix of shoegaze, lo-fi psychedelia and fuzzy, mid-period Sonic Youth.
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Jun 27, 2012Wild Peace is a transcendental album that shows a band reaching for new heights, and achieving blissful music that many of their peers can only dream of making.
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Jun 25, 2012It starts to distinguish itself from its long-established template when the band gets less edgy.
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Jun 25, 2012While it is ever-so-slightly patchy, it would be unkind to suggest that Wild Peace is anything other than an impressive debut.
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Jun 25, 2012Wonderfully accomplished in construction, devastatingly powerful in delivery, Echo Lake have just raised the bar one notch higher for everyone around them.
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Jun 25, 2012Wild Peace is a largely subdued affair, but there's so much happening just below the surface of the music that it's easy to miss some of the album's buried brilliance while you're distracted by its glimmering melodies.