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Six years after releasing his debut solo album E<\/em><\/a>, Ecco2k<\/a> has returned with a follow-up. Echo<\/em> lands on the rapper-producer\u2019s own label, 9th, this Thursday, November 12. The record contains previously released songs \u201cAldehyde and Ketones\u201d and \u201cSky Burial,\u201d plus 10 additional tracks.<\/p>\n Per press materials, Echo<\/em> follows \u201ca vagabond character who wanders the world carrying a broadcast antenna and a crown of flowers. Moving alone through mountains and deserts, beaches, cities, and villages, he searches for signals in a world of overwhelming beauty and indifference, listening and transmitting.\u201d Echo<\/em> contains no features, and Ecco2k\u2014real name Zak Arogundade\u2014produced every song either solo or alongside regular collaborators Gud<\/a>, Whitearmor, Felix Lee, and Mechatok<\/a>.<\/p>\n Arogundade got his break as a musician as part of Drain Gang, the Swedish collective rounded out by Bladee<\/a>, Thaiboy Digital<\/a>, and Whitearmor. The crew has released two albums together thus far, 2017\u2019s D&G<\/em> and 2019\u2019s Trash Island<\/em>. Bladee and Arogundade also put out a joint album, Crest<\/em><\/a>, in 2022.<\/p>\n Revisit Pitchfork\u2019s review of Crest<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Echo:<\/em>
01 Aldehydes and Ketones
02 Echo
03 Industrial Strength
04 F\u00e6mous Vagrant
05 Plume
06 Cuban Heel
07 French Exit
08 Loveless Animal, Lawless Criminal
09 Encore
10 Held Overnight
11 Swimming in Fountains
12 Sky Burial<\/p>\n<\/div>\n