Lustra

Echobelly | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• ASIN: B000009GWP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,232,557 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bulldog Baby

2. I'm Not A Saint

3. Here Comes The Big Rush

4. Iris Art

5. The World Is Flat

6. Everyone Knows Better

7. O

8. Bleed

9. Paradise

10. Angels

11. Lustra

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Echobelly's best yet., July 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Lustra (Audio CD)

Echobelly have grown yet again. Time has honed their style and let them produce their best album to date. Sonya Aurora Madan's angelic voice sweeps you through her songs, with her dazzling lyrics and captivating ideas, until you are singing at the top of your lungs and even accompanying Glenn Johansson on his flying guitar riffs. This album has everything, from the unbelievably catchy "Iris Art", "Everyone Knows Better" and "I'm Not A Saint", to the soulfull accoustics of "Bleed" and "Falling Flame"; from the frantic ( you better not drive while playing this ) pace of "Drive Myself Distracted", "Holding The Wire" and the unparalleled "Mouth Almighty" to the majesty of the orchestra that accompanies in "Wired On." I warn everyone now not to play this album before taking a shower as your voice ( and you will be singing ) could travel for miles through the pipes.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Echobelly's production catches up with its songwriting, April 22, 2002

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woburnmusicfan (Woburn, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lustra (Audio CD)

This is Echobelly's best album, and that's saying quite a bit. The songwriting, by singer Sonya Aurora Madan and guitarist Glenn Johansson, is as strong as ever, and the arrangements and production are better than on the previous album, "On." Echobelly's previous albums had more of a live band sound, guitar-based and with the guitars sounding pretty much the same on every song. This album adds keyboards and strings to the arrangements, and varies the guitar sounds, resulting in an album that's comparable in sound and appeal to the first Elastica album--both melodic '90s updates of '80s alternative rock. None of Echobelly's power is lost in the transition. Some fans didn't like this change in Echobelly's sound, but it makes for a more satisfying listen. This version of the CD includes five B-sides that weren't on the original release; four of them are better than most bands' A material.

The 17 songs contain over a dozen memorable tunes, from the brooding "Bulldog Baby" with its pulsing synthesizer to the effortlessly catchy "Iris Art", from the stuttering guitar of "Here Comes the Big Rush" (Madan's night out with a cross-dressing friend) to the obsessive "Drive Myself Distracted" and the powerful strings on "Wired On". By rights, "Angel B" should have been used in a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode somewhere along the way.

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST ECHOBELLY ALBUM OF ALL TIME!, January 24, 2010

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Ted Cantu "Theo A" (Walled Lake , MI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lustra (Audio CD)

i LOVE THIS ALBUM... and its incredibly underated. When this thing was released you never heard a word about it. This was probably the last of the great Echobelly recordings. I had the experience of literally wearing out these CD's... the first releases, ON, EGO and this one were played to death.

The guitar hooks are revved up. I dont think anyone has really captured this type of manic style .. Sonya Aurora never sounded better. This is some killer stuff.