Echo Mountain (album)

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Echo Mountain
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Studio album by
Released26 March 2010 (Benelux)
RecordedEcho Mountain Studios in 2009
Genre Alternative rock
Length48:49
Label Epic
K's Choice chronology
Almost Happy
(2000)
Echo Mountain
(2010)
The Phantom Cowboy
(2015)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Echo Mountain is the fifth studio album of the Belgian rock band K's Choice. After a reunion concert at Dranouter festival in August 2009 the band started recording new material in the Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina. On 22 February 2010 they confirmed on their website that the new album would be released on 26 March 2010. "When I Lay Beside You" (#3 at the singles charts) and "Come Live The Life" were released as singles.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sam (as Sarah) and Gert Bettens.

CD 1
No.TitleLength
1."Come Live The Life"4:13
2."Let it grow"3:54
3."Echo Mountain"3:58
4."When I Lay Beside You"4:00
5."Perfect"3:15
6."I will carry you"2:24
7."If this isn't right"3:16
CD 2
No.TitleLength
1."Say a prayer"4:00
2."These are the thoughts"2:42
3."16"3:10
4."Killing Dragons"2:46
5."America"4:33
6."Along for the ride"3:06
7."How simple can it be"3:15
8."Show me how it's done" (extra track contained in special release for Free Record Shop)2:38

Personnel

Musicians:

Charts performance

Single charts

TitlePeak positions [8]
BEL NED
"When I Lay Beside You"3 (Flanders)
20 (Wallonia)
"Come Live The Life"11 (Flanders)
30 (Wallonia)
86

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