Big Echo

The morning benders’ new album, Big Echo, opens with the warm crackle and pop of a needle hitting vinyl, before the swooning orchestration sweeps in and carries you away to a time when life was more carefree and natural. A lush, big-hearted collection of songs rooted in the greatest traditions of American songwriting, Big Echo incorporates symphonic pop, a Wall of Sound production aesthetic, and sunny harmonies as told from the point of view of 4 kids in their early 20’s from Berkeley, California.
 
“The title Big Echo sums up what we’re doing sonically and textually,” singer, lyricist, song-writer, Christopher Chu, reveals. “The idea was to take sounds from all different eras and all different kinds of music, throw them together, and see how they sound bouncing off each other. Throw it all into an echo chamber. Thematically, there’s a lot of pondering about time, the span of your life and how your perspective fits into everyone else’s. It’s explores the idea of your memories as echoes that are always inside you, creating these frequencies that become your soul.”
 
Recorded in several smaller sessions spread out over 11 days Big Echo was self produced by Chu with the mixing being handled by both Chu and Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor (Dirty Projectors, Department of Eagles).