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A viola and piano create insistent chamber pop hooks as the counterpoint to heavy dubwise bass and plaintive Balearic guitar licks, providing a bed for Charles, in one of the strongest melodic turns on the album, to contemplate the difficulties of bridging the gaps between separate human beings.
This echo, this echo, this echo, this echo,
This echo, this echo, invisible.
This echo, this echo, question and answer.
This echo, this echo,
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Or am I thinking what you’re thinking?
What are you thinking?
This echo, this echo,
Answer question, question answer,
Question answer, answer question
Nervous system, nervous system,
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Or am I thinking what you’re thinking?
What are you thinking?
Nervous system, nervous system,
Nervous system, nervous system,
Your nervous system,
Nervous system, nervous system
Nervous system, nervous system
My nervous system,
Nervous system, nervous system,
Nervous system, nervous system,
This nervous system
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Or am I thinking what you’re thinking?
What are you thinking?
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Am I thinking what you’re thinking?
What are you thinking?
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Or am I thinking what you’re thinking?
What are you thinking?
This echo, this echo, this echo, this echo
This echo
credits
released September 12, 2023
Charles Hayward/Voice & Drums
Agathe Max/Viola
Roberto Sassi/Guitar
Yoni Silver/Keyboard, Bass Clarinet, Clarinet
Otto Willberg/Bass Guitar & Double Bass
Produced by Frank Byng and Charles Hayward
Recorded at Lewisham Arthouse and Snorkel Studio
Engineers: Nathan Greywater and Frank Byng
Mastered by Nick Watson at Fluid Mastering
Abstract Concrete is another big step for UK underground heavyweight Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now), joined by
some of the most exciting and forward-thinking young London players from a diversity of European underground and experimental scenes: Agathe Max, Roberto Sassi, Yoni Silver & Otto Willberg
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