Will Echo has now released INFINITY - a four track EP which contains the songs Glory, Listen, Moon and Night.
INFINITY is the precursor to the highly anticipated 2025 ten track album entitled SILVER which is scheduled to drop around November 2025 - watch this space for details over the coming month.
INFINITY flows through raging electric guitars to a mellow acoustic buzz, with guitar work courtesy of Echo's writing partner for the Cummings project producer James Livett. INFINITY is pushing the boundaries of diversity that can be squeezed from one four track EP with all shades of musical colour - check it out now!
With the continuation of Echo's ongoing E.E. Cummings project, all four songs are inspired by the poems of America's finest. In case you were wondering, the title INFINITY is lifted from the fourth song NIGHT (official poem title 'A connotation of infinity), and the only one of the Cummings re-imagined songs to feature Livett on lead vocals.
It is this post's purpose to shine the spotlight on INFINITY's opening track GLORY, a glorious explosion of post-punk energy, that rages from start to end, brooding, dark and anxious, setting up the chorus lift and tag line for the anthemic repeated line “This is the passing of all shining things”.
Allpoetry.com analyses the poem of GLORY (AMORES V - The Glory is Fallen Out of) as follows:-
- A lament for the passing of beauty and glory. The first stanza establishes a sense of loss and decay, with the "glory" having fallen from the sky and the "last immortal leaf" being dead. The second stanza emphasizes the inevitability of this passing, using the metaphor of a "formal spasm" to describe the year's death.
- The third stanza shifts the focus to the human response to this loss. The speaker urges us to "descend" into the earth, to accept our own mortality. The fourth stanza asks the wind to take away our "fragile splendors" and hide them in nothingness, so that we may sleep.
- The poem ends with a call to action, urging us to embrace the darkness and to find strength in the face of loss. The "serious steep darkness" represents the challenges and difficulties of life, but it is also a place where we can find meaning and purpose.
- This poem can be compared to the author's other works in its exploration of themes of loss, mortality, and the human condition. It is also representative of the modernist period, with its emphasis on fragmentation, disillusionment, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world.
Below is AMORES V in all of it's original beauty:-
the glory is fallen out of
the sky the last immortal
leaf
is
dead and the gold
year
a formal spasm
in the
dust
this is the passing of all shining things
therefore we also
blandly
into receptive
earth,O let
us
descend
take
shimmering wind
these fragile splendors from
us crumple them hide
them in they breath drive
them in nothingness
for we
would sleep
this is the passing of all shining things
no lingering no backward-
wondering be unto
us O
soul,but straight
glad feet fearruining
and glorygirded
faces
lead us
into the
serious
steep
darkness
Look out for the new album SILVER in the coming months!