Aloha albums
	Band Members:                    Tony Cavallario - Vocals, Guitar                                                  Matthew Gengler - Bass                                                  Eric Koltnow - Percussion, Synths                                                  Cale Parks - Drums                                                          2006                                                          Some Echoes - 7/8       This band was an unexpanded find: a pop album that is very complex, in the vain of Archer Prewitt's Wilderness of 2005. Some have called it "prog-pop", but that is very misleading. It's just easy going music that is put together in sometimes unconventional ways. Its never uninteresting though, with "Your Eyes" and "Weekend" providing some fun moments of melodic bliss; "Big Morning" and "Come Home" being the brooding ballads; the magnificent "If I Lie Down" just being the record's outstandingly good track. Some great introspection is shown on "Between the Walls", with the line, "are we dying as in death? Or are we being born again?" If there was a prog sound on here, it would have to be in the Yes inspired "Summer Lawn", which is a great 70's sounding mystic kinda track; a very overlooked kind of music these days. In all, Some Echoes shows off a band ready to prove to the world that great pop albums (with synths!) can still be made, and it just sounds so easy to do! Of course it is not, as the pounding closer "Mountain" points out, with the band always looking toward the future, "upward, ever, forever, upward, forever". It might not sound profound, but somehow it is in the song! If there is a better pop record this year I'll be shocked, but by any standard, Some Echoes is a great record, and It makes me want to rediscover this bands' three older albums. - Trevor e.y. 1.brace your face- 4 2.big morning- 4 3.your eyes- 4 4.ice storming- 2 5.between the walls- 4 6.come home- 2 7.weekend- 4 8.summer lawn- 3 9.if I lie down- 4 10.mountain-4