Yorkshire Square is an old mucker from a music discussion forum I run. He very kindly bought a copy of EchoNET and has decided to review it for me. Below is his review and it nails the album to its core. It’s very perceptive.

You may be aware of this album, as a certain member of the board never seems to stop banging on about it (now who would that be?)
Anyway, my CD+DVD arrived in the post from CDBaby just the other day and I’ve been immersing myself in its delights ever since.
Aficionados of Mr Lock will already know where his styles lie and EchoNET continues, what for me is, his most successful genre. This is a wholly instrumental of guitar based music with additional percussion and effects. The lack of vocals is a real boost as Mr Lock sings like my granny farts; roughly and out of tune.
The music on the whole is undemanding, but has sufficient variety to maintain interest throughout; its a bit like easy listening for the left-field generation. The one thing that strikes me is that over the years Darren has really started to develop his own style (or lack of it in some tracks from previous outings). On earlier albums the influence of other well known players was more apparent but on EchoNET the artist plays very much in his own unique style. I did detect a hint of some of Yorkshire Square’s brilliant tracks from the Projekction CD in there, but then realised that all of the actual music was played by Mr Lock, so that probably explains that then!
This album should be in any self-respecting music lovers collection. If you haven’t got it yet, get it now. If you’ve downloaded it (especially if it was an illegal download), buy the CD+DVD set for the glorious surround sound and the sight of Mr Locks cheesy grin in the video of the last track. Go on; do it now!

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