Two years after the release of their acclaimed third album The Octopus, Manchester-based Amplifier return on the mighty Kscope label with their most focused album to date, Echo Street. The band's first release with its new four-piece line-up, Echo Street begins with four truly epic pieces, Matmos, The Wheel, Extra Vehicular and Where The River Goes, before entering more subtle and reflective territory - Paris In The Spring, the atmospheric Floyd-tinged title track, and the vocal harmony driven Between Today And Yesterday - and climaxing with the anthemic and uplifting Mary Rose. The core band, Sel Balamir (guitars) and Matt Brobin (drums), re-emerge in a very different context - a four-piece line-up that has encouraged a subtle shift in Amplifier's style allowing the band to mix its epic space rock sensibility with more melodic songs incorporating three-part vocal harmonies (sung by Sel, former Oceansize man Steve Durose and bassist Alex "Magnum" Redhead).