“Echoes” by Amsterdam-and-Moscow-based artist Holy Christ! finds its way quietly into your bloodstream and lingers, pulsing with memory and feeling. Clocking in as a reverie of sanded memories, “Echoes” is a slow drift across the fog-whipped surf of memories, a song slathered in the layers of dream pop, shoegaze shimmer, and alt-rock soul.
Made by the mysterious master of Holy Christ!, “Echoes“ is a highly personal journal entry we can somehow read or, better, feel. The production is cushiony and cinematic, with full, reverb-drenched guitars and minimalist percussion that never feel dug in or crowd the emotion but only elevate it. Sung in restrained tones, the vocals bear the pressure of what isn’t said of memories that can’t be buried, though they don’t beg to be addressed.
The imagery accompanying the single is as evocative as the sound. Picture a little girl riding a bunch of red balloons upward, a visual metaphor that neatly reflects the track’s theme of how the humblest of memories can elevate rather than encase us. “Echoes“ invites you to linger in that in-between where pain and joy overlap, where life’s clarity never quite comes into focus, and where it’s okay to be.
This is not a song designed for the charts but for the quiet spaces in your day, the long walks, the sleepless nights, the places where you’re neither in then nor now. It’s music that’s felt more than heard, one for you craving the same. Sounding an unlikely note of comfort, he gives us a hushed truth that sometimes, the things that pass away still form us. And if you let this song take you, buoy you up in its balloon, you may find yourself in a new place you didn’t know you needed to be.
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