Echo Dancing

Alejandro Escovedo

Publicado el 29/03/24 por Yep Roc Records
Artistas principales: Alejandro Escovedo
Género Rock

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Over thirty years on from 1992's Gravity, the solo debut that let the world know Alejandro Escovedo was one of America's great songwriters, the man has little if anything to prove, and doesn't have to rest on his laurels if he's not so inclined. However, Escovedo has taken a truly idiosyncratic look at his own songbook on 2024's Echo Dancing, in which he's cut new, radically different versions of fourteen songs from his back catalog. Reportedly, Escovedo had traveled to Italy to cut a set of fresh tunes with Don Antonio and Nicola Peruch, who collaborated with Escovedo on his 2018 album The Crossing, but at the last minute he came up with the idea of re-interpreting some of his older compositions instead, though fans can be excused for not recognizing all of Escovedo's oldies. A few of these songs are genuinely obscure, but even the best known tracks get a truly thorough reworking, with scratchy guitars, lo-fi keyboards, and vintage drum machines often dominating the arrangements, making much of this seem like Escovedo's long-lost new wave or synth-punk LP. Tracks like "Sacramento & Polk" and "Wave" sound as if Escovedo, Antonio, and Peruch were aiming to be eccentric for their own sake (especially the former, which could pass as a B-side for the Normal's "Warm Leatherette"), though the more spare and atmospheric tone of "Outside Your Door" and "Last To Know" (dominated by droning keyboards and minimal electronic drones, confirming Escovedo's statement that Suicide was a major influence on him) fit the songs well while also casting them in a bold new light. The notion of Escovedo making a lo-fi junkshop electronic album sounds even more unlikely than him covering his own songs for a full album, and while Echo Dancing is uneven, the hits outnumber the misses by a margin that qualifies this as a successful experiment. That said, given how well he and his collaborators take to this approach, perhaps this would have been an even better LP if he'd come up with a set of original songs purpose built to these sounds. Escovedo is a great interpreter, but he's an even better songwriter.

© Mark Deming /TiVo

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