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“Echo” is the second single off of Lillian King’s album In Your Long Shadow.

There’s a pier on Lake Michigan that acts as a breakwater around North Avenue Beach. In the winter it freezes. Running out on the pier one is blasted with wind and pummelled by waves. It’s a wild, concrete no man's land beside downtown Chicago. “Echo” is about that pier.

Lillian wrote “Echo” over a couple of months, playing with the singing style, vocally echoing some words and not others. But she didn’t know what to do with the song until she got in the studio with Robert Salazar and Nick DePrey.

Before recording, Lillian had a list of the songs she wanted to track and a solid schedule in mind, but Robert kept mentioning how “the magic of the studio will create another song.” Lillian loves to have fun, but thought that kinda stuff only happens in documentaries about bands. Robert’s can-do attitude proved her wrong.

During downtime between songs, Lillian dug up the Echo lyrics from her well-used Notes App and started bashfully playing it for Robert and Nick. Robert immediately hopped on the drums, creating the jaunty, open pace of the song. Nick gave the drums and voice room by playing the organ. Jack Henry, who recorded the album, immediately sensed what was happening and set up microphones where everyone was sitting. So in twenty minutes “Echo” was born. It’s the only song on the album recorded live-off-the-floor. There was something about that atmosphere that made Lillian want to go low at the end of each verse, which everyone thought was awesome. That deep, chilled out “I relax” is one of Lillian’s favorite moments on the album. If only there was a documentary crew filming the whole thing–– movie magic!

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Echo
Echo
Let it go.
Let it go.
I hear the voice in the back of my mind
It is hard to ignore this time.
My hands are tied.
My hands are tied.
Echo
Echo
The dog is barking
The waves break our path
I relax
I relax

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from In Your Long Shadow, track released September 23, 2025

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My name is Spencer Krug. I am central to a handful of projects (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Moonface, Swan Lake), and have been on a number of labels (Sub Pop, Jagjaguwar, Paper Bag, Royal Mountain, Global Symphonic, Absolutely Kosher.) Pronounced Kroog is the self-made label on which I now release music under my own name, works from past projects, and more. ... more

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