MUSIC

Lola Marsh’s “Echoes” Is a Haunting, Twin Peaks-esque Dance Tune

The latest track from Lola Marsh is a noirish, ghostly tune that's guaranteed to have you tapping your feet.

Lola Marsh

The duo Lola Marsh just released their new single "Echoes."

It's an enchanting, textured track, set to an intoxicating beat and tied together by singer Yael Shoshana Cohen's silky vocals.

The band, consisting of Cohen and Gil Landau, formed in 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Since then, they've been crafting noirish, danceable electro-folk, blending melancholia with electric energy to create music that pays tribute to many modern groups but also possesses a sound all its own.

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"Echoes" is a mysterious tune, one that lands somewhere between the moodiness of the Twin Peaks theme song, the expansive rhythms of Tame Impala, and the country-rock-psychedelia of early Muse. Its haunting lyrics could tell the story of someone scanning the crowd for a new lover, or wandering the streets alone, remembering a long-gone ghost of the past. Either way, the song feels drawn out of late night scenes, filled with images of neon signs and faint moonlight spiraling through fog.

Though it's about getting caught up in memories of the past, "Echoes" also feels free, like something has been released or exorcized by the end of the track. The band echoed this contrast in a press release, stating,"'Echoes' is about that feeling you sometimes have when you want to disappear, but at the same time, want to be found. That scary beautiful moment just before falling asleep, when you are the most lonesome version of yourself."

The video takes notes from '70s fashion and boasts a distinctly vintage feel. It finds the two musicians dancing as multiple versions of themselves, peering at each other from across an empty loft and slowly moving closer to each other. It's a fitting visual for a song that's disorienting and multifaceted, but also catchy and ultimately certain to get listeners tapping their feet. In some ways, because it's so gloomy and catchy at the same time that it feels designed for a haunted dance party, or maybe a rager at the decaying, vine-covered mansion down the road.

"We are so excited to have new music out there!" said the band. "After we wrote 'Echoes,' we immediately started to dance, and we knew that something very good just happened. Our director Indy Hait gave us the chance to finally show off our silly dance moves for the first time."

Watch the video for "Echoes" below.

Lola Marsh - Echoeswww.youtube.com

TV

The "Black Mirror" Season 5 Trailer Has Miley Cyrus in It for Some Reason

What is Miley Cyrus doing in the trailer for "Black Mirror" season 5?

On the heels of their interactive choose-your-own-adventure, Bandersnatch, Black Mirror season five returns to Netflix on June 5th with three brand new spooky stories about, like, how bad technology is, ya know?

You can watch the trailer right here. On your high-res screen.


The upcoming season of Black Mirror went all out on casting, grabbing basically everyone they could from Marvel and DC, like Anthony Mackie (Falcon from Avengers), Pom Klementieff (Mantis, also from Avengers), Yahya Abdul-Mateen (Black Manta from Aquaman), and...Miley Cyrus? Yes, that's right. Miley Cyrus will be appearing on Black Mirror, probably to illustrate the harsh realities of leading a double life between your private and public persona. Sometimes you really can't have "the best of both worlds." That's a reference to Hannah Montana, by the way.

Andrew Scott (Moriarty from BBC's Sherlock) also makes an appearance as a man having a temper tantrum about a phone. And Topher Grace is there, too, with blonde hair that isn't fooling anyone. We still remember you played Venom in Spider-Man 3, Topher.

Oh, and how about that fighting game scene? Is it possible that one day we'll be able to become the characters in our fighting games, and maybe that will have unforeseen consequences? Like, maybe our only interactions will be through battling idealized avatar versions of ourselves. We lose our identities as we become consumed by virtual bloodlust, which our real world bodies, fattened by the comforts of modernity, cannot sate. Thus we descend further into the game. Black Mirror certainly thinks so.

Make sure to catch season 5 of Black Mirror on Netflix June 5th!


Dan Kahan is a writer & screenwriter from Brooklyn, usually rocking a man bun. Find more at dankahanwriter.com


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