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Violent Whispers: Songs & Secrets from The Echoing Green [ULTIMATE EDITION]

by The Echoing Green

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Gustavo Rojas
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Gustavo Rojas I have so much to say about this album but if I wanted to resume it, it's just sophisticated, elegant, and full of poetry as its name suggests.

“Suffer” it's just perfect as an opener, “Seaside” and “Matter” helped me out realize that this was not just a collection of loose songs, this album absolutely represents a sonic, visual, and emotional adventure with an immaculate composition/production/mixing quality also presenting different styles through Dark Wave based tunes. Favorite track: The Story of Our Lives (VW Remaster).
DJ StrangeOne
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DJ StrangeOne It's TEG at their finest to cap off an amazing journey...although I hear they're not quite finished yet?
djxuqyz
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djxuqyz one of the best Bands of all time with an epic album. I got this with the vinyl release and this album has so many songs. if your a fan of electronic music this is the album you need.
Jason Baker
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Jason Baker I've loved EG for so many years - a huge part to the soundtrack of my life. This collection does a excellent job of summarizing the more recent works of EG. Recent being a relative term, I guess. :) Favorite track: The Story of Our Lives (VW Remaster).
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lyr1ce TEG is a unique-synth/rock poetry blend. Their song writing evokes emotion and pictures and longing and hope. I can't go on enough about this group. Definitely one of my top 5 of all-time influential artists in my collection.
synchrony
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synchrony I knew Joey (a bit) back when he was at NMSU in my hometown of Las Cruces. I've always admired his talent and attitude. It's great to have an album with a ton of Echoing Green music and I'm looking forward to hearing it. (To Joey: I didn't pursue a music career past 1995, but I started playing keys again a few years ago at my church and I'm loving it! Best wishes on the new album and let me know if you're ever in Cruces.)
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With a moon half-empty And a sky that’s gone to waste And the twilight offers cold embrace The amber of autumn fades And the grays Of summer’s mistakes And the dreams we Try to replicate They fall away Isn’t this world Something wonderful that We were made to suffer Both it’s honesty and cruelty Today With a heart half-empty And a light I’ve yet to see And the sadness takes a hold of me And fire-white burns like Agony Entropy We all fall apart To the cadence Of our bleeding hearts They fall away Isn’t this world Something wonderful that We were made to suffer Both it’s majesty and cruelty They fall away And is grace not Something beautiful that We were made to suffer The lucid touch of clemency They fall away Isn’t this world Something wonderful that We were made to suffer Both it’s majesty and cruelty They fall away And is grace not Something beautiful that We were made to suffer The lucid touch of clemency They fall away Isn't this world Something wonderful that We were made to suffer Both it's majesty and cruelty They fall away And our tears become a sanctuary We are made to suffer With tenderness and empathy They fall away We are made to suffer
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You're never gonna take me alive Devoted to demise You’re never gonna push me aside And in the twilight It falls apart Under the half-light You kiss and Sell your beauty goodbye Like radio waves You pass me by Video takes Your thoughts online Your sullen style It’s all pretend Sinking in Sentiment sublime All of your truths are Laced with lies Your violet smile Kisses red Like revenge Are you ever gonna Kill your disguise The breath behind the lies Will I ever see the whites of your eyes And in this Hot white light You fall apart It’s such a Sad, sad sight The touch of Dissonance and demise Like radio waves You pass me by Video takes Your thoughts online Your sullen style It’s all pretend Sinking in Sentiment sublime All of your truths are Laced with lies Your violet smile Kisses red Like revenge Where do we go now Where do we go now Eye for eye And this for that You hit me I hit you back Eye for eye And this for that If you kiss me I'll kiss you back Like radio waves You pass me by Video takes Your thoughts online Your sullen style It’s all pretend Sinking in Sentiment sublime All of your truths are Laced with lies Your violet smile Kisses red Like revenge
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All the flowers in the Field of hours Have withered away And the sky that used to Light our lives Is ashen grey As the clouds Kiss the fault line And look back as if to say There's nothing to see here There's nothing to feel here And our dreams Left like children By the wayside And our psalms Sung like secrets By the seaside Ahh Could heaven come more quickly Ahh And lift us from The embers and the cinders That we remember Of the fires that Killed our hearts And left us withered and grey There's a tear inside of all our lives That time won't mend And there's a shroud around our Saddened eyes Here at the end Yet our hopes Shine like beacons In the half-light And our prayers Violent whispers By the seaside Ahh Could heaven come more quickly Ahh And lift us from The embers and the cinders That we remember Of the fires that Killed our hearts And left us withered and grey
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You can say the words To their faces They won’t listen You can sound it out Any way you can And You can tell your dreams To the world They won’t listen Your hopes and invention Don’t matter to them But they matter to me They matter to me And your whispers Sing like sirens To me Standing by like a hero With nothing to save Up against all the Water, wind, and the waves And if you Take a moment just to Shield your face Shut your mouth Let your secrets Keep their place Oooh You’ll tell them to no one But you can tell them to me You can tell them to me And your sentiments are diamonds To me They matter to me They matter to me And your whispers sing like sirens To me
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Take this down Like a rite of passing And hear this sound Before it fades To never And goodbye Is the only sigh We just won’t believe it And tonight As the sunset dies Nothing comes to mind And you hold in your hands My dreams like sand that I forget Yet somehow you remember And the tears that pass Like broken glass of Our regrets Are somehow warm and tender Well it’s seventeen past Sunday And November’s starting to burn Strike up a match Let’s raise it higher Tonight And the skies Where our wishes fly Relinquish all their glimmer To your eyes Like the northern lights Start to shimmer And you hold in your hands My dreams like sand that I forget Yet somehow you remember And the tears that pass Like broken glass of Our regrets Are somehow warm and tender Take me where we could be Take from me the memory The future is our history Tonight Take me where we could be Take me anywhere Take from me the memory I wouldn’t even care The future is our history Right now tonight Tonight Tonight And you hold in your hands My dreams like sand that I forget Yet somehow you remember And the tears that pass Like broken glass of Our regrets Are somehow warm and tender
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Anything And everything is Meaningless when Forever's waiting We're captive to this place For now So we take our hopes and Hold them away Chain them to the Throes of yesterday But the chains are getting tight Tonight Our dreams are in our sights As we're lifted out of nowhere With sunspots in our eyes We see the glory of our lives Our hearts are burning bright As we're lifted out of nowhere Our songs all stay behind To sing the story of our lives In this place Where loneliness is Neverending Condescending And leaves a bitter taste For now And our hearts weighed down with Nothing to say As darkness steals our innocence away But now we're seeing light Tonight Our dreams are in our sights As we're lifted out of nowhere With sunspots in our eyes We see the glory of our lives Our hearts are burning bright As we're lifted out of nowhere Our songs all stay behind To sing the story of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives The story of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives The story of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives Take our hopes and Hold them away Chain them to the Throes of yesterday The chains are getting tight Tonight Our dreams are in our sights As we're lifted out of nowhere With sunspots in our eyes We see the glory of our lives Our hearts are burning bright As we're lifted out of nowhere The pain all falls behind Behold the glory of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives This is the story of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives Behold the glory of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives This is the story of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives Behold the glory of our lives Story of our Glory of our Story of our lives Story of our Glory of our This is the story of our lives
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You’re in my headlights With nowhere to run And I’m the huntress And I’m getting my gun I’ve got your eyes wide Well this is so much fun And we’ve just begun And when we dance I’m Bringing hell in a dress And with a glance I’ll Leave your heart in a mess With every word I’ve Got a lie to confess Your eyes are so committal This might hurt a little And you Take take take The worst of me and just Make make make It seem like Hell in the way You break break The best of me and just Shake shake shake The rest of Heaven away This thing that we’ve become Might seem like love to some All the lies you’ve fed to me They leave me standing empty With nothing to say And like a cross you Give the weary a rest And like a vampire I take it right in the chest And every chance I’m Putting grace to the test And I feel So numb It’s such a tragedy This violent love affair with Vanity Every stupid promise is a Fallacy I’ll make you settle for less and your End has come Oh oh oh-oh Oh oh oh-oh uh oh And you Take take take The worst of me and just Make make make It seem like Hell in the way You break break The best of me and just Shake shake shake The rest of Heaven away This thing that we’ve become Might seem like love to some All the lies you’ve fed to me They leave me standing empty With nothing to say
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Our dreams seem far away Before the sunrise Will grace let us betray all the tears that I’ve cried - I’ve cried I’ve felt so alone I’ve pled - I’ve bled I’ve wondered why I’m lost - We’re lost But if we close our eyes We might see the light that we dream about Hope still has a name and it sets on fire Hope is still a flame that is burning inside Hope has made a way for all the dead hearts to arise And our hearts ignite Ascending though it feels like we’re falling Our dreams cast light like stars burning bright Hearts held high Ascending for the first time we’re soaring like birds in flight The truth seems hard to say So far past sunset Can grace still take away all the things that I’ve said - You’ve said Don’t say it again. I’ve hurt - I’ve heard I’ve listened to lies I’m scared - I’m scared But I’ve a feeling that This could be the last time we fall apart
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Staring in the face of fallacy Stepping on the glass of serenity Sleeping in the arms of irony I find you. You taste the crime And slowly remind me Of times when the "light" Was blinding to me And the glow is getting bright... But it's not light. Sipping from the cup of tragedy Entangled in the web of vanity While spitting in the face of sanity I find you. The peace in your mind Is deceptive by design The pride behind your eyes Is blinding And the glow is getting white... But it's not light It's the daylight breaking down In your mind As the darkness tells it's solitary lie It's not light It's not light It's not the light That's blinding.
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Weekend comes and all we’ve said is done (Weekend comes and goes) But we can’t get past All the memories that we’ve pushed away All the feelings that we’ve led astray (led astray) And all the Saturdays & Sunday’s someday I see heaven in the things you say And the devil when you look away And you breathe breathe like it’s the first time And I feel feel like it’s the last time I see heaven in the things you say And the devil when you look Look the other way and I feel my heart resign With empty hearts here we both stand And the second hand... It goes tick - tock - tick - tock. The culmination of our hopes and fears And all the minutes stretching into years I wanna make the circle stop Every time I hear the Heaven in the things you say And the devil when you look away And you breathe breathe like it’s the first time But I feel feel this is the last time I see heaven in the things you say And the devil when you look Look the other way And our hearts beat out of time I wanna walk and you ask me not to You wanna talk with his arms around you You’re holding to something - But something’s changed
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Keep your heart in my safe keeping Kiss your eyelids while you're sleeping Promise, that I'll always love you This is, all about all of you Lovely darling, precious starling Reaching to the stars, I’ll steal them all for you Calling, crawling, spinning, falling All for you Warm your skin with sweet embraces Leave your troubles - only traces Dreams like raindrops Across the treetops All about all of you Lovely darling, precious starling Reaching to the stars, I’ll steal them all for you Calling, crawling, spinning, falling All for you All about all of you
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I just need some time to get this right You’re so Hollywood So I guess you should be in the limelight Sing high and swing low You’ve got the look, can’t you put on a show? I’ll tell you why it’s gonna blow You’re a star but nobody knows Shine so bright Well come on, crybaby! I wanna take you, take you for a ride A cigarette in your mouth With lips that scream, now now they pout So take your last drag ‘Cause the song you sing Well it’s sorry and so sad What you do — I’ve seen better But at least you’ve found an easy lover Rock hard and scream louder But you leave me with nothing to remember And so you can’t stop crying About all this love you’ve lost At least you have your stories It’s just too bad they’re boring
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“I’m so alone” - I hear you say I give my hand, you push it away We can’t decide on love or suicide Through the great divide The earth, the moon, the tide If I had a way we could make it Would you take it? If we could Pray the words that endear us Awake the vows inside The heavens sigh like the groom who sees The first glimpse of his bride... And takes her away. Come take us away And sometimes we lie To make the truth seem kind We cast redemption aside Just to make it go away Well I’m done being afraid I’ll kiss the wounds that I’ve made And let the scars remain Come take us away! Can you take us away? Away.
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It’s a dark and lonely winter You say “this hell’s never felt so cold” Yet there’s the faintest smell of cinders And a truth yet to be told And a sound surrounds your secret Something I’ve heard, but can’t yet see Like whispers in the twilight The secret now revealed to me… It’s a flame Burning just behind your eyes I’m praying for rain But nothing will put out these fires That burn and blaze Wait Let’s not forsake all these years If you’d just stay There’s so much truth still to hear And I’ll listen all night To your hopes and every fear I won’t say it’s alright These things always end in tears You’re fanning the flame And everything is catching fire The things that you hate And everything that you desire Are one and the same Running to escape this pyre And cover the shame Hiding just behind your eyes Through green and grey We turn, turn with hearts on fire We feel it inside, we’re steeling to die To burn, burn what we conspire We cast it aside to keep us alive There’s a flame The things that you hate The tears that you taste We burn it away There’s a flame.
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I guess I had to be kind of blind not to see How it was bound to be in vain Hung around for the plot to thicken While being stabbed again and again This time I'll burn all bridges leading back 'Cause I'm not sure I'm strong enough I simply have to bail I'm far to frail to be at the receiving end I feel torn apart and abused Battered and bruised I guess I'm stupid to nurture an addiction to hope But it's not my only vice I surrendered again thought things would change Now imagine my surprise This time I'll burn all bridges leading back 'Cause I'm not sure I'm strong enough I simply have to bail I'm far to frail to be at the receiving end I feel torn apart and abused Battered and bruised
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You’re just in time So step right up to the starting line We smile and all the while You’ll walk this mile in single file March like a soldier Left foot first and right down the middle We’ll give the order If you can make it We can break it and take it away! We’re never gonna give our youth away It’s not political Everybody wants to give us words to say It’s just so typical Watch your mouth when you’re talking to me. Scrape your knees in disloyalty Genuflect my audacity As I step on all your decency We’ll sit and watch you (I told you so) Hold fast to virtue (I sold your soul) Integrate or antiquate If you can turn it We can burn it and take it away! Let’s Go!
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There's a hint of grey that stays Behind our eyes There's a certain hope that fades In winter light Our dreams they die like autumn And we don't mind Our tears they kiss the water Yet we will find that Someday we will leave here And someday we might fly If you put your head to the window Press your ear to the grey sky outside The rain that's tapping the window Will dry… someday. There's so many words we find Are in the way You could put your hand in mine We'll run away Our thoughts they dance like shadows in firelight Regrets they shine like candles Burning through the night But someday… someday.
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Story's End 01:39
Tonight Our dreams are in our sights As we're lifted out of nowhere With sunspots in our eyes We see the glory of our lives Our hearts are burning bright As we're lifted out of nowhere Our songs all stay behind To sing the story of our lives This is the story of our lives
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Epiphany 04:09
Taking ahold of destiny coming undone blind the soul and stain the feet quenching the sun there's an effigy of who I was I'm tearing it down an epiphany of who I've become deaf to the sound turn it around reaching for something just to push it away dreaming of something to wish it away screaming at something to kiss it away a bitter sea of empty days holding me down a symphony gone out of phase I'm deaf to the sound turn it around reaching for something just to push it away dreaming of something to wish it away screaming at something to kiss it away longing for something while stepping away I'm stepping away. so far away
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Take naivety from me and leave me isolated All at once I feel so free yet so captivated You make the endless waves of time seem so temporary You’re my missionary Emissary. Adversary. You define the line between human and divine In this empty place intrinsic grace so necessary See the skies divide When hope and fear collides From this cemetery offer me this sanctuary There is violence when You move Yet I’m stationary Devastate all my design And make it arbitrary You break my legs yet leave my knees My will penetrated I’m eviscerated. Consecrated. Lacerated. You define the line between human and divine In this empty place intrinsic grace so necessary See the skies divide when hope and fear collide From this cemetery offer me this sanctuary This heart You break it and make it sacred These eyes awaken, this breath is taken from You
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t’s a dark and lonely winter You say “this hell’s never felt so cold” Yet there’s the faintest smell of cinders And a truth yet to be told And a sound surrounds your secret Something I’ve heard, but can’t yet see Like whispers in the twilight The secret now revealed to me… It’s a flame Burning just behind your eyes I’m praying for rain But nothing will put out these fires That burn and blaze Wait Let’s not forsake all these years If you’d just stay There’s so much truth still to hear And I’ll listen all night To your hopes and every fear I won’t say it’s alright These things always end in tears You’re fanning the flame And everything is catching fire The things that you hate And everything that you desire Are one and the same Running to escape this pyre And cover the shame Hiding just behind your eyes Through green and grey We turn, turn with hearts on fire We feel it inside, we’re steeling to die To burn, burn what we conspire We cast it aside to keep us alive There’s a flame The things that you hate The tears that you taste We burn it away There’s a flame.
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Our dreams seem far away Before the sunrise Will grace let us betray all the tears that I’ve cried - I’ve cried I’ve felt so alone I’ve pled - I’ve bled I’ve wondered why I’m lost - We’re lost But if we close our eyes We might see the light that we dream about Hope still has a name and it sets on fire Hope is still a flame that is burning inside Hope has made a way for all the dead hearts to arise And our hearts ignite Ascending though it feels like we’re falling Our dreams cast light like stars burning bright Hearts held high Ascending for the first time we’re soaring like birds in flight The truth seems hard to say So far past sunset Can grace still take away all the things that I’ve said - You’ve said Don’t say it again. I’ve hurt - I’ve heard I’ve listened to lies I’m scared - I’m scared But I’ve a feeling that This could be the last time we fall apart
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t’s a dark and lonely winter You say “this hell’s never felt so cold” Yet there’s the faintest smell of cinders And a truth yet to be told And a sound surrounds your secret Something I’ve heard but can’t yet see Like whispers in the twilight The secret now revealed to me… It’s a flame Burning just behind your eyes I’m praying for rain But nothing will put out these fires That burn and blaze Wait Let’s not forsake all these years If you’d just stay There’s so much truth still to hear And I’ll listen all night To your hopes and every fear I won’t say it’s alright These things always end in tears You’re fanning the flame And everything is catching fire The things that you hate And everything that you desire Are one and the same Same Running to escape this pyre And cover the shame Shame Hiding just behind your eyes Through green and grey We turn, turn with hearts on fire We feel it inside We’re steeling to die To burn, burn what we conspire We cast it aside, to keep us alive There’s a flame Those things that you hate The tears that you taste We burn it away You’re fanning the flame We feel it inside We’re steeling to die We cast it aside, to keep us alive There’s a flame And everything is catching fire The things that you hate And everything that you desire Are one and the same We turn, turn with hearts on fire Running to escape this pyre And cover the shame To burn, burn what we conspire Hiding just behind your eyes Through green and grey
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Our dreams seem far away Before the sunrise Will grace let us betray all the tears that I’ve cried - I’ve cried I’ve felt so alone I’ve pled - I’ve bled I’ve wondered why I’m lost - We’re lost But if we close our eyes We might see the light that we dream about Hope still has a name and it sets on fire Hope is still a flame that is burning inside Hope has made a way for all the dead hearts to arise And our hearts ignite Ascending though it feels like we’re falling Our dreams cast light like stars burning bright Hearts held high Ascending for the first time we’re soaring like birds in flight The truth seems hard to say So far past sunset Can grace still take away all the things that I’ve said - You’ve said Don’t say it again. I’ve hurt - I’ve heard I’ve listened to lies I’m scared - I’m scared But I’ve a feeling that This could be the last time we fall apart
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Anything and everything is meaningless When forever's waiting We're captive to this place... for now So we take our hopes and hold them away Chain them to the throes of yesterday But the chains are getting tight... Tonight Our dreams are in our sights, As we're lifted out of nowhere With sunspots in our eyes, We see the glory of our lives Our hearts are burning bright As we're lifted out of nowhere Our songs all stay behind To sing the story of our lives In this place Where loneliness is never-ending Condescending And leaves a bitter taste... for now And our hearts weighed down With nothing to say As darkness steals our innocence away But now we're seeing light... Behold the glory of our lives.
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Take naivety from me, and leave me isolated All at once I feel so free, yet so captivated You make the endless waves of time seem so temporary You’re my missionary Emissary Adversary You define the line between human and divine In this empty place intrinsic grace so necessary See the skies divide When hope and fear collides From this cemetery offer me this sanctuary There is violence when you move Yet I’m stationary Devastate all my design And make it arbitrary You break my legs yet leave my knees My will penetrated I’m eviscerated consecrated lacerated You define the line between human and divine In this empty place intrinsic grace so necessary See the skies divide when hope and fear collide From this cemetery offer me this sanctuary This heart you break it and make it sacred These eyes awaken this breath is taken from you
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Turn of events Where seconds give way to moments In my mind I lose these faces Forget these places Try to find some traces of me Time is an unseen thief It steals my thoughts and memories from me I'm left behind with this apathy so tempting Where minutes don't seem so kind I find that... Time comes, and I don't matter Time numbs, and dreams lay shattered I stand, and time just passes me by While the clock on the wall is racing I fight for shreds of feeling Inside, time keeps stealing mine A dreamless dance Where instance defies existence In this life we feel confined We fall behind To the rhythem of the endless design Time is a clock in the heart The seconds pass before they can start I'm torn apart With this apathy, so empty Where seconds seem so unkind I find that... Time comes, and I don't matter Time numbs, and dreams lay shattered I stand, and time just passes me by While the clock on the wall entraps me I fight for shreds of feeling Inside time keeps stealing mine
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The Echoing Green Albuquerque, New Mexico

Armed with their emotionally-charged brand of synth-laden industrial pop, and songs with both bright & dark (but always catchy) hooks, The Echoing Green have crafted a sound that has evolved from humble synth pop into what is now something truly genre-defying. ... more

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