Local, indie or major label, this is easily one of the best albums of 2011. Clearly a band to look out for… ~Rob Farrish, Wesleyan University Radio, WESU 88.1 FM

Praise for Sundrenched Elsewhere

I’m calling it, friends — it’s going to be big… Echo & Drake is one of those rare bands… a speck of gold in a sea of brass… For an hour, Sundrenched Elsewhere made me feel like the girl I once was—guileless, green, and discovering fantastic new music around every corner.  ~Gabrielle Bruney, The Wesleyan Argus

Indie-pop outfit Echo and Drake recruited some major names to turn Sundrenched Elsewhere into a breakout album. It paid off in spades. Recorded with the microphone wizards at Telefunken Studios, and mixed by Joseph Donovan (who won a Juno Award — the Canadian equivalent of the Grammies), Sundrenched Elsewhere is loaded with epic reverb and killer falsettos. ~Dan Barry, The Hartford Advocate

“I don’t want to die in my hometown,” sings lead singer Jon Ericson on the song “Mad Hatter,” and it is clear that Echo & Drake is a band dreaming of indie rock stardom… [The band] recently self-released their debut album, Sundrenched Elsewhere, an LP brimming with lush, melodic guitar washes… The album has echoes of all the indie rock staples, from The National to, occasionally, Fleet Foxes… Echo & Drake could go places ~Andrew Wagner, The Yale Herald