Anabasis: Album Release by Echo Bloom

Echo Bloom is a New York–based Babylonian ritual rock band, equally at home echoing through an abandoned art gallery or blooming across the wires of a dusty Tuareg rock station. Following years of touring and multiple releases — including the Colors triptych — Anabasis marks a decisive shift: a new lineup, with guitarist Justin Garcia joining percussionist Cody Rahn and bassist Alex Minier, and a harsher, more abrasive sound built for honesty rather than polish.
The record draws from a wide constellation of sources: the speculative worlds of Susanna Clarke and Jeff VanderMeer; the architectural rigor of Vitruvius and Le Corbusier; the ecstatic and mechanical tensions of Os Mutantes, Fela Kuti, Kraftwerk, and Nine Inch Nails; the violence of Willem de Kooning’s line; the devotional intensity of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

At its core, Anabasis is shaped by grief. Principal songwriter Kyle Evans began writing the record after the death of his aunt—his musical north star. What followed was not resolution but fixation: shock curdled into disbelief, disbelief into anger, and anger into momentum. The songs come from that place.

Much of the material was first formed through Hoursongs, a long-running project in which Evans wrote one song per week within strict time limits. Over 164 pieces were completed; several became the skeletal framework of Anabasis. The discipline of repetition brought focus, focus bred confidence, and confidence erased fear.

The group decamped to Woodstock’s Applehead Recording for the album’s principal sessions. With co-producer and engineer Mike Tierney, they refracted grief into song, constructing an imagined cosmology in which a soul passes through purgatory, moves through the world, and ultimately arrives at dance as the most nihilistic—and pure—expression of life. From that journey emerge the creatures that pulse through Anabasis: coral and chrome, feathers and seaweed—ghosts of the future.

Anabasis arrives May 1, 2026, accompanied by multiple singles, a music video, and extensive touring.