Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist Logan Wedgwood returns with his instrumental project Sounds Escape, unveiling Electric Love, a breathtaking sonic odyssey that blurs the lines between composition, storytelling, and emotional immersion. At the heart of the album lies Exploding Stars, a standout track that encapsulates the project’s expansive vision and Logan’s instinctive command of atmosphere.
Sounds Escape is more than a musical alias, it’s Wedgwood’s creative rebirth. Once a touring drummer, he stepped away from music in 2009 as life shifted and responsibilities grew. But when the world stood still during the 2020 pandemic, the silence rekindled something. Logan picked up a guitar, not to chase a career, but to save himself. Loneliness, uncertainty, and pressure gave way to ritual; raw riffs turned into loops, layers became themes, and eventually full-scale compositions. From this slow-burning resurgence, Sounds Escape was born.
On Electric Love, Wedgwood’s storytelling instincts shine. He crafts instrumental pieces that feel cinematic, not in the sense of swelling orchestras, but in how they pull you inside their emotional architecture. A single guitar melody may serve as a guide through a quiet, reflective landscape, while other tracks spill over with stacked harmonies, percussive movement, and lush multi-instrumental walls of sound.
This is music built on feeling rather than formula, the kind you surrender to. Whether soundtracking a late-night walk, a quiet moment of introspection, or an imagined film scene, Sounds Escape offers tension and release, shadow and brightness, presence and distance.
Exploding Stars is the ideal entry point: bold yet intimate, layered yet spacious. It showcases the dynamic emotional palette that Electric Love explores, the exhilaration of uplift, the ache of longing, the catharsis of resolve. And remarkably, it’s only a glimpse of the album’s full emotional reach.
Electric Love is less a collection of songs and more a continuous arc, a rollercoaster of rhythm, texture, and heart. For an instrumental project to evoke this level of narrative clarity is rare; for a self-driven, deeply personal project like Sounds Escape, it’s exceptional.
With this release, Logan Wedgwood cements Sounds Escape as a rising force in instrumental music, not just for the genre’s fans, but for anyone who believes that sometimes, the most powerful stories are the ones told without words.
