The follow-up to 2019’s E arrives this week

Ecco2k, photo by Hendrik Schneider

Seven years after releasing his debut solo album E , Ecco2k has returned with a follow-up. Echo lands on the rapper-producer’s own label, 9th, this Thursday, November 12. The record contains previously released songs “Aldehyde and Ketones” and “Sky Burial,” plus 10 additional tracks.

Per press materials, Echo follows “a vagabond character who wanders the world carrying a broadcast antenna and a crown of flowers. Moving alone through mountains and deserts, beaches, cities, and villages, he searches for signals in a world of overwhelming beauty and indifference, listening and transmitting.” Echo contains no features, and Ecco2k—real name Zak Arogundade—produced every song either solo or alongside regular collaborators Gud , Whitearmor, Felix Lee, and Mechatok .

Arogundade got his break as a musician as part of Drain Gang, the Swedish collective rounded out by Bladee , Thaiboy Digital , and Whitearmor.…