Music
Echo Park features a varied mix of musical styles. While most of the tracks are fast, with "We Can't Rewind" showing aggression, and demonstrate the change in direction to a more commercial approach, other songs such as "Piece by Piece", "Satellite News", "Turn" and "Oxygen" reveal a quieter, slower and more melodic temperament. With Echo Park, the band began to incorporate additional instruments into their sound. Many tracks feature the use of Moog synthesizers, which Grant experimented with during the recording of the album. The opening track, "Standing on the Edge", is seen by Grant as the most experimental track on the album, as it is mostly synthesized. The closing track "Bug", was recorded live in the studio and uses more dirty-sounding riffs than most of the tracks on the record.
The voice heard at the beginning of the track "Standing on the Edge" is that of Matt Sime who is a friend of the band. He played keyboards on tour from 2000 to 2001, and also at their festival appearances of 2002. He continued to work with the band in the studio, engineering their recordings, until retiring permanently from the music business in 2011.
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