This set from nostalgia label
Gear Fab
compiles 23 tracks from the Miami-based
garage pop
group the
Echoe Band
, who at one point or other in their brief career were also known as "The Echo," "Echoes," and -- wait -- "The Echoes of Carnaby Street." Along with their final version of
"Shadows,"
their most well-known track, come two alternate takes; these in addition to the three versions of
"Wild Mother"
that fill out the band's scant output. For '60s band aficionados, there are seven previously unreleased tracks here -- they're mostly covers, with a fuzzed-out organ solo in the middle of a workmanlike
"Love Me Two Times"
being the obvious highlight. (The band's take on the
Beatles
"Hello Goodbye,"
however, is a fabulous template for any young
rock
group trying like mad to sound just like "the fab four").
1965-69
may appeal to '60s era completists, but quickly becomes too redundant for any casual fan of the '60s regional
sound. ~ Johnny Loftus