We’re happy to report that we’re not the only ones who love the new album… “Atlas” debuted at #1 on the FMQB SubModern Singles Chart and the forthcoming album is debuting at #1 on the SubModern Albums Chart as well.
We’re happy to announce the following West Coast tour for the Speak-ahh release with our good friends Red Cortezsupporting! Check our show page for more details on times & tix
4/20 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Muddy Waters
4/21 – Fullerton, CA @ Slide Bar
4/22 – Los Angeles, CA @ Echo (Album Release show w/ Hands supporting)
4/24 – San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
4/26 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
4/27 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
4/29 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place
At long last the release for Speak-ahh is set. Eastern Conference Champions are returning with their first full album of new material in four years. Speak-ahh will be released on April 26th on RockHampton Records.
Josh explains why it took four years to finish their second album: “We knew this was going be a very important record for us when we started demoing and collecting songs. Every record and EP we released up until this point was truly a stepping-stone to this record. We wanted Speak-ahh to hit on every level. For the most part the band has adapted itself to getting things on their first or second takes whilst recording. I cant for the life of me tell you why this is our darkest record to date, it’s not something we planned, we didn’t even realize it until we looked at what we had finished.”
Recorded in downtown Los Angeles, The ten-track album is a departure from the sound of their debut album. “After we recorded Ameritown with Owen Morris, we had a hell of a time pulling off some of the songs live, it just got away from us in the studio,” Josh reflected. “Since we began recording on our own, we always go into recording a song with a ‘are we gonna be able to pull this off live’ mentality. We never put two guitars down when one will do the job. We prefer the bones of it to an orchestra. We love the rawness.”
Tour dates to support the release will be announced shortly.
Finally here it is. The official music video for “A Million Miles An Hour” directed by our good friend Leiv Parton. This track was featured in Twilight ‘Eclipse’ and the music video along with others from the last three Twilight movies are available on DVD here.
Thanks for being a fan! Everyone on the mailing list is getting a free download of our new Xmas cover “We Three Kings” Just hit the “redeem” button below, punch in the code you got, sit back and enjoy the holidays with ECC…
We’re happy to announce that ECC went back in the studio to record their first ever acoustic sessions for the aptly titled “Akustiks” due out next month on December 7th. Hopefully this will tide everyone over till Speak-ahh drops next year. Also for everyone who pre-ordered Speak-ahh you’ll be getting an email with a free download code for ‘Akustiks’ as a thank you and an apology for us taking so damn long…
For a little more insight into the project…
“When we started the project the idea was just to record acoustic versions of some of our songs for the fans to have, but it’s always more fun for us to write and record new stuff, so once we got into the studio we started fleshing out some new material as well. Recording acoustic was something we’d never done before and we wanted the challenge. It really ended up being a lot of fun, and hopefully listening to it will be the same.”
