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Twenty-four months after the release of their critically acclaimed third album The Octopus, Amplifier are back with a brand new album called Echo Street - their first with the new four-piece line-up - and a new working arrangement with Kscope.
The deal sees the band come full circle. Sales of independently released The Octopus left them amazed and delighted, and encouraged them to headhunt the promise of Kscope (home to Anathema, Porcupine Tree etc) to now provide the best of both worlds - artistic freedom and commercial clout to take Amplifier to a new level.

Such change is constant for Amplifier, who have always been a band that refuses to stand still. Now the band of Sel Balamir (guitars) and Matt Brobin (drums) re-emerge at the core of a very different animal - a four-piece line-up that has delivered a subtle shift in style allowing them to mix their epic space rock jams with accessible pieces boasting three-part vocal harmonies - sung by Sel, former Oceansize man Steve Durose (second guitar) and Alex “Magnum” Redhead (bass).

Sel: “I guess the people are going to be expecting something like a follow-up to The Octopus - but Echo Street isn’t like that at all. It’s important that people understand that not everything will be like what has gone before. I never want to repeat myself.”
Nothing in life is completely black and white but if The Octopus was black, then Echo Street is white.
“Before I sort the sheep out into the order of the most beautiful. I like to put all the white ones over here and all the black ones over there. That’s a summary of my job - it’s a bit like being a rock shepherd”
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  • pinkpinkpink999

    cool stuff

    13 May 10:43am Reply

  • shallowdaydream

    stunning live band!

    26 Apr 3:57pm Reply

  • FxXxR

    i love the mood on Paris In the Spring

    17 Apr 2:50pm Reply

  • Ampcorp

    IT'S APRIL NEWSLETTER TIME - EUROTOPIA!!!! http://amplifierband.com/newsletter.html In This Exciting Issue: • IT'S EURO TOUR TIME • INDIA WORLD EXPERIENCE IN AWESOME 3D • AT HOME WITH MAGNUM - episode two • BRUM'S WILDLIFE SPECIAL!!!

    15 Apr 12:43pm Reply

  • Ampcorp

    It's tour promo video time... If you work for Lucas film - don't watch this. http://youtu.be/tii_nXQq02o

    12 Apr 10:33am Reply

  • xanderglz

    Matmos was an awesome choice for the first single, and The Wheel probably is one of the best, most iconic and representative songs Amplifier has ever made. Echo Street has some pretty good stuff in it. Definitely their most focused and mature release.

    29 Mar 7:18pm Reply

  • segge

    nice voice

    26 Mar 7:23pm Reply

  • Walenta

    Heavypop Review: http://www.heavypop.at/amplifier-echo-street/

    25 Mar 2:40pm Reply

  • GeFeS

    Новый альбом атмосферен, но скучен и уныл. Только первая и последняя песни хороши. [2]

    24 Mar 10:49am Reply

  • Domilition

    Новый альбом атмосферен, но скучен и уныл. Только первая и последняя песни хороши.

    23 Mar 7:38pm Reply

  • gnislleH

    I like the new albulm and the EP. They make perfect sense when listened together.

    23 Mar 11:30am Reply

  • LucifereZ

    The new album is really good

    23 Mar 11:06am Reply

  • derangered

    I'm with you, tomplifier. I actually got into Amplifier through Oceansize's debut.

    23 Mar 1:20am Reply

  • tomplifier

    Amplifier had lalala's and nanana's on their other albums, too. Here they play with their new possibilities with two background singers. And why not? On some songs it works perfect, on other not that well, but this is okay. I like Echo Street very much. And there is no comparison needed. Whether to The Octopus not to Steven Wilson. This man has a large influence to modern prog music. Look on developments of Riverside or Anathema for example. This bands have more to do with Porcupine Tree-style of music, than Amplifier ever had.

    22 Mar 6:30pm Reply

  • derangered

    LakeGlade, I can see your comparisons there but I believe that Amp's music is thoroughly more interesting than Porcupine Tree and SW's solo gear from the last decade. I find Pineapple Thief's last two albums to be flat and boring as well, mind you ... after being a fan of theirs upto including Tightly Unwound. Amplifier are still at the 'top of the pops' when it comes to the battle of mainstream prog.

    22 Mar 1:39am Reply

  • KevinVillage

    i had a chuckle

    22 Mar 1:21am Reply

  • LakeGlade12

    This band is suffering from the classic case of Steven Wilsonitus. It is likley that they became infected by the over-exposure of Porcupine Tree over the years (a well know carrier of Steven Wilsonitus). Common symtoms include vauge concept albums, the publishing of super-delux hardback books and most importantly the uncontrolled use of La-La-La's as a substitute for proper lyrics.

    21 Mar 4:21pm Reply

  • derangered

    To be honest I don't think I've even got over The Octopus yet. I refuse to make comparisons. The Octopus is just too monolithic.

    21 Mar 5:51am Reply

  • derangered

    New album of space musics, I like!

    19 Mar 7:00am Reply

  • shallowdaydream

    Love the new album and the new EP as well. And suprisingly I am digging all the pa-pa-pas, na-na-nas and la-la-las:) Matmos, Extra Vehicular, Where The River Goes are extremely strong and awesome tracks. Well done Amplifier!!!

    17 Mar 9:25pm Reply
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