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"This one might've been in us from the start", says John Hancock. He's talking about 'Echos' - his, Becky Williams, Finn Bjarnson & Ryan Raddon seventh Late Night Alumni longform. Predominantly known for blending electronic and organic elements into their music, the album represents a departure from the band's largely house-led sound. An all-acoustic affair, in many ways though 'Echos' is a natural extension of LNA's DNA. "Most of our songs", John continues, "are written in the organic/acoustic realm and then produced with electronic flavours to create our sound. In those intimate song beginnings though, there's a magic all its own. We've long wanted to do an album that captured and augmented that initial intimacy." Which is indeed what Becky, John, Finn & Ryan have now done. The quartet have dug back into their twenty-year, six-album history and selected eleven tracks that they felt could most benefit from this song-spotlighting treatment. With their original acoustic intros as cues, they've taken them to their natural conclusions. A Sliding Doors-type feast for LNA enthusiasts both new and established, or indeed all lovers of downtempo, downtime, live instrumentation-led music. 'Echos' embarkation point is 'Beautiful', which originally featured on the band's 2005 debut album. Initially piano-threaded, halfway in it reaches an emotional tipping point, as LNA allow strings to swell through its production. Begging the question 'when is a cover version not a cover version?!', the album moves onto an acoustic retelling of Ryan 'Kaskade' Raddon's '4 AM'. Already co-written by his fellow Late Night Alums, here, '4 AM's adopts a more break-of-dawn type feel. Dropping a pin on more latter Late Night times, 'Even As I Go' (from 2019's 'Silver' LP) applies a touch more of the orchestral and cinematic tones to its acoustics. '

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