Ecco2k announces new album Echo dropping on Thursday
The Drain Gang founder tells a coming-of-age story about his travels and longing in his newest project.
Hendrik Schneider
Ecco2k announced his second full-length album, Echo, a project six years in the making. Featuring his two recent singles, “Aldehyde and Ketones” and “Sky Burial”, Echo will be released on Thursday, November 12, through his own label called 9th. (Ninth).
According to a press release, the Swedish rapper produced this album himself and in collaboration with Gud, Whitearmor, Felix Lee, and Mechatok. Echo’s release will also include music videos he shot throughout his travels over the last six years, teased by his videos for “Aldehyde and Ketones” and “Sky Burial”. The album visually emulates the motifs of his past projects—centering around the recurring image of an antenna—much like the darkly futuristic wind turbines in his album E (2019) and electrical lines in PXE (2021).
Echo follows the story of a vagabond traveller and his place in a beautiful and hostile environment, along with Ecco2k’s reflections on loneliness, longing, and growing up, according to a press release. “The transcendent can express itself through the most ordinary things, and the sublime is so beautiful that it is frightening,” Ecco2k said.
As one of the notable founders of the “Drain Gang” movement alongside Bladee, Thaiboy Digital, and Whitearmor, Ecco2k has been an influential force on the Swedish rap scene. Both as a musician and a mixed-media artist—previously utilizing photography, filmmaking, design, and performance—Ecco2k established the musical and visual foundations of the Drain Gang collective that continues to permeate the rap genre today.
Ecco2k's Echo tracklist
1. Aldehydes and Ketones
2. Echo
3. Industrial Strength
4. Fæmous Vagrant
5. Plume
6. Cuban Heel
7. French Exit
8. Loveless Animal, Lawless Criminal
9. Encore
10. Held Overnight
11. Swimming in Fountains
12. Sky Burial
