Kerala Dust’s magnificent new album, An Echo of Love, is an object lesson in never standing still. Central to its musical hybridity – where art rock meets innovative electronica and the warm embrace of the dancefloor leaves room for the expansive vistas of Americana, desert blues and crepuscular drives through a neon-lit city – is a record alive to the possibilities of constant flux.

 

It’s a wonderfully shapeshifting record; a restless fusion where meaning is found in fragments rather than anything fixed or static. It is, in short, all about momentum. This sense of perpetual motion is found not only in the changing personnel of the band – keyboardist Tim Gardner and drummer Pascal Karier are new additions, joining longstanding members Edmund Kenny (vocals and electronics) and Lawrence Howarth (guitar) – but in the locations where the album was written and recorded. Sessions took place in Tuscany, Austin, Berlin, Zurich and, finally, Rome. For Edmund the record “exists in all those places in some way”