Echoes Radio

Echoes Radio sounds like New Zealand's best-kept secret, a genuinely unpredictable stream that ignores genre boundaries. You'll hear The Beths' jangly indie next to old dubplates from King Tubby, and somehow it holds together. The curation is adventurous, the way community radio should be. It's not for listeners who need their radio predictable. Fine by us. But if you're in the mood for discovery, Echoes delivers. The station might not have the polish of a major network, but that's exactly why it works. Late night could use more decipherable announcers, some chatter is too mumbly. Yet as backg…