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For my first-ever written music video review, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on “Like Candy”, the latest visual from pop rock band Echo Strike’s sophomore record “Not Inside Your Mind”. With the more listens I gave their record since I reviewed it last year, I found myself truly appreciating its ...

Echo Strike’s electro-pop meets pop-rock creative freedom joins forces with heartfelt songwriting and warming melodies throughout this colorful, considerate new full-length album. Beginning with an electro-soaked Catch Me, the project quickly introduces a thoughtful, self-reflective manner of songwriting, with a gentle, accessible vocal and contemporary production effects, to guide us through these ...

Echo Strike finds beauty in the imperfections on the infectious energy of “Not Inside Your Mind”. The stylistic diversity is a thing of pure wonder as they incorporate disco, dance rock, pop, R&B, and electro into a singular stream of consciousness. Color and texture appear to be of the utmost ...

“Not Inside Your Mind” is the sophomore record from pop rock band Echo Strike, following the release of their debut album “Honest Lies” last year. With that previous album, the eight-man band – led by vocalist Randy Van Gelder –  delivered a collection of songs with breezy, pleasant-sounding production (with ...

Every artist is different, and when it comes to solo singers and musicians, it is always intriguing to discover what’s behind their art. At the same time, from this point of view, I always found bands even more interesting; every band member has its own story, past, and approach to ...

Echo Strike is the product of frontman Randy Van Gelder in collaboration with guitarist Beau Newlin and producer Jonathan Broussard. Together, they produced a solid debut album, Honest Lies, a record that had been slowly developed over many years by Gelder. A year later, the band has more than doubled ...

If you heard someone throwing around the term pop-rock you could be forgiven initially imagining some sort of middle of the road, fashion-driven dross that neither delivers the immediacy of the former nor the integrity of the later. But what if there was a way of taking the instant hook, ...

Not Inside Your Mind is the new pop/rock album from Echo Strike. Although relatively new on the music scene, Echo Strike has actually been in the making for a while. Lead singer, Randy Van Gelder, envisioned what the musical project would be a long time ago, and then began to steer ...