Obviously Lake Street Dive

• 1 Hypotheticals 03:50
• 2 Hush Money 02:48
• 3 Same Old News 04:36
• 4 Being a Woman 02:49
• 5 Making Do 03:34
• 6 Nobody's Stopping You Now 03:47
• 7 Know That I Know 04:02
• 8 Lackluster Lover 03:29
• 9 Anymore 04:10
• 10 Feels Like the Last Time 03:19
• 11 Sarah 02:38
• Total Runtime 39:02

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Mit ihrer einzigartigen Mixtur aus Pop, Rock, R&B und Jazz machen Lake Street Dive Musik, die zugleich zeitlos und unmittelbar ist, überschwänglich und nachdenklich. In den gut 15 Jahren ihres Bestehens hat die mitreißende Lebendigkeit der Band eine immer größere Sogwirkung entfaltet (das letzte Album »Free Yourself Up« erreichte 2018 Platz 8 der Billboard 200.

Das neue Album wurde vom Grammy-ausgezeichneten Producer, Songwriter und Multi-Instrumentalisten Mike Elizondo produziert, der als Songwriting-Partner von Dr. Dre, Eminem und 50 Cent bekannt wurde und Alben für Fiona Apple, Mary J. Blige, Carrie Underwood, twenty one pilots und viele weitere produziert hat. Aufbauend auf Elizondos Expertise im Erschaffen von Hip-Hop-Alben und verstärkt um die Fertigkeiten des neuen Bandmitglieds Akie Bermiss an den Keyboards, verdichten Lake Street Dive ihre breiten musikalischen Geschmäcker zu einem beeindruckend stimmigen Sound, der Retro-Einflüsse mit einer aktuellen Haltung verbindet.

»Wir sind seit so langer Zeit eine Band, dass wir nicht einfach nur eine Feedbackschleife für unsere eigenen Ideen werden wollten«, begründet Bassistin Bridget Kearney, wieso Lake Street Dive dieses Mal nicht wie gewohnt selbst produzieren wollten. »Es schien ein wirklich guter Moment zu sein, um eine andere Person wie Mike [Elizondo] reinzubringen, der tatsächlich dafür sorgte, dass wir uns stärker öffneten.«

Lake Street Dive

Lake Street Dive
How is it that something so unlikely can also be so infectious, so naturally exhilarating? Pulling in familiar elements and irreverently scrambling and recombining them, Lake Street Dive are at once jazz-schooled, DIY-motivated, and classically pop obsessed. Beginning with catchy songs that are by turns openhearted and wryly inquisitive, this northeastern quartet proceeds to inject them with an irresistible blend of abandon and precision. Composed of drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, vocalist Rachael Price, and trumpet-wielding guitarist Mike "McDuck" Olson, Lake Street Dive encompasses a myriad of possibilities within its members’ collective experiences, and the resultant music is a vivid, largely acoustic, groove-driven strain of indie-pop. “It seems the only limitation we have,” Kearney explains, "is that we try to make music that we would like listening to."

Hailing from such disparate locales as Tennessee (Price), Iowa (Kearney), Minneapolis (Olson), and Philadelphia (Calabrese), Lake Street Dive first gathered in a room together when they were students at Boston’s New England Conservatory. "Mr. McDuck assembled the four of us, said we were now Lake Street Dive, and we were a 'free country' band," Bridget Kearney remembers. "He wrote this on a chalkboard in the ensemble room that we had our first rehearsal in. We intended to play country music in an improvised, avant-garde style – like Loretta Lynn meets Ornette Coleman. It sounded terrible! But the combination of people and personalities actually made a lot of sense and we had a great time being around each other and making music together."

Lake Street Dive makes the most of pop music virtues: solid, evocative song craft; propulsive grooves; and Price’s disarming, forthright vocals. However, it’s a personal strain of pop that is refracted through the band members' rich backgrounds: a sinewy Motown bass line is reborn with woody heft on Kearney’s upright, Calabrese’s drumming mixes timekeeping with more adventurous jazz-inflected outbursts, McDuck’s nimble trumpet is an unexpectedly warm counterpoint to Price’s singing. It all makes for a sound with familiar roots, but with a slant that is entirely their own. Lake Street Dive's eventual artistic breakthrough came not without struggle, and still surprises original instigator Mike “McDuck” Olson. "Now we’re a pop band, leaning very heavily on soul and rock, with hook-y writing, which I never expected," he concludes. "If I could travel through time, I'd go back six years and play the new record for my younger self, just to assure him that the awkward, new-band phase doesn’t last forever."

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