Echo & The Bunnymen: Influences

Echo & The Bunnymen: Influences

Echo & The Bunnymen's dark post-punk vision reaches deep into rock history for ideas. While their snaking guitars reveal a love for the intricately woven fretwork of Television's Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, their muted atmospherics are informed by Scott Walker's gloomy art-pop balladry. The Doors also need a call-out, particularly their ability to smear '60s psychedelia in weary echo.