The title of the fifth studio album from instrumentalists and producers Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer, and Paul Frick refers to the trio's return to their original approach a decade earlier, when their objective was to make "techno without the technology" while applying Frick's background in modern composition. Echo does sound like it was made by the same group who entered with the lean, crisp, broken-piano house of "Iron Man," and retreats from the dense backdrops tailored for poet/singer Beaver Sheppard on 2016's preceding Joy. Ultimately, it's an alternate path forward that plays out like a sequel to Miami with greater emphasis on repetition. Only two tracks feature a guest vocalist. Friedberg, aka Anna F., adds a dazed, vexed quality to "Echoes," and the voice of Catherine Ringer (Les Rita Mitsouko) splays out across "Encore," a wrenching number evoking Herbert's Around the House in hell. The sense of disquietude in all previous BBF output remains here, though all the musicians -- from the core trio to a small group of associates on strings and brass -- seem to be playing in an exhilarated state, especially as they build up to a racing, floor-shaking finish on the closing "Mont Blanc." ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi

1		Rest
2		Chamber 1
3		Decades
4		Extend
5		Masse
6		Echoes (feat. Friedberg)
7		Chamber 2
8		Fuel
9		Encore (feat. Catherine Ringer)
10		Chamber 3
11		Mont Blanc

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