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THE ECHO BOMBS (THE OUTSIDERS)<br />
For fans of: Cloud Nothings, Brian<br />
Jonestown Massacre<br />
“Music is a matter of passion for us; it gives our<br />
lives meaning,” says Eddie Horn, the singer/guitarist<br />
at the heart of garage group The Echo Bombs. “It<br />
provides us with a medium of communication that is<br />
therapeutic.”<br />
I am inclined to agree with his sentiments, especially<br />
knowing the kind of racket they can drum up in their<br />
live sets. The Echo Bombs, made up of Horn, Daniel<br />
Endicott, and Michael Regan, make music rooted very<br />
much in the tradition of punk rock, the music of the<br />
outsider. Nothing makes an outsider’s heart sing quite<br />
like annihilating an audience with a barrage of noise,<br />
and when I saw The Echo Bombs make it look so easy<br />
at The Rogue Bar, I knew I had found kindred spirits.<br />
King of Uncool, their full-length album, draws out its<br />
influences with equal measures of newer groups like<br />
Cloud Nothings and Wavves mixed with classic Pixies<br />
and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. “Creeper,” my<br />
favorite song by the band, is a lurching and jagged<br />
hit, odd as that may sound. The Echo Bombs make<br />
pop music for serial killers, meaning their songs are<br />
catchier than they have a right to be, considering<br />
their fascination with distorting every element. It is<br />
this paramount priority that makes them stand out:<br />
the need to take something merely pleasant and<br />
deform it into something new.<br />
“We can’t pretend to love Phoenix. Our songs<br />
‘Fake It’ and ‘King of Uncool’ are actually about our<br />
struggle to find a place—and an audience—here,”<br />
Horn says about their relationship to the musical<br />
community. The qualities held in high regard by the<br />
group are those that entail sacrifice to a muse and<br />
eschewing the concept of material gain as artistic<br />
validation. “There are a few extremely talented<br />
artists in our scene that have shed their ambition<br />
for a socially defined success and instead set out to<br />
create insightful and personal music,” Horn says. He<br />
could apply this to his own work, and the city itself—<br />
amorphous and changing, difficult and rewarding.<br />
The Echo Bombs will be performing a costume partythemed<br />
show at Rip’s Bar Oct. 29 with the Paper<br />
Foxes.<br />
JAVA 37<br />
MAGAZINE
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