Echo Group
Challtalk Record Collection
Free Download

Ah, the ole random Bandcamp browsing; it always yield some interesting results! Truth be told, I know next to nothing of Echo Group except that they have this Challtalk Record Collection EP, a split with Mom & Dad and will be playing Tour de Fun this year. Beyond that, I know I like what I hear. There’s plenty of quality influences peeking their way through with the jangly guitars, the occasional upbeat horn section and sometimes sneering croon of the lead vocals. But enough with the excessive adjective posturing, just go listen to it and add them to your list of bands to keep an eye out for.

Over the weekend I ran across this note from Jeffery Carney regarding a never released album from imagine asians that begun recording in 2006.

I wanted to share something with you all that I began working on in 2006, if memory serves. Back then I was zealously pursuing an “advanced hobby” in music, and I recorded an album with a bunch of friends from Nashville under the band name imagine asians. Unfortunately, my perfectionist side never allowed me to release this album, titled (rather ironically, looking back), “We Are the Future!”

This project, which was created on a shoestring budget of well under $2000 (including artwork), was something that I worked on for nearly a year, and for a long time I held onto hope that I’d return to it when I had more time and money to polish it to my heart’s content, but, at least for the time being, that isn’t in the cards. And so I’ve decided to make it available in ultra high quality .wav format to any of you that would like to have a copy.

Download We Are the Future!

Don’t let the unreleased nature of the album fool you – it’s polished and enjoyable from start to finish. In fact, it’s a shame that it’s been banished to the World of Lost Recordings because it deserves much more than that.