Lake Street Dive – New Album
Side Pony
For Release 19 February 2016
Boston’s Lake Street Dive has recently signed to Nonesuch Records and a new album Side Pony will be released on February 19 2016. The four band members— drummer Michael Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, singer Rachael Price, and guitarist/trumpeter Michael “McDuck” Olson — worked with Nashville-based producer Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Secret Sisters, Corb Lund) on the record.
You may have caught the band on its Australian and New Zealand tour in February and March this year, playing at Melbourne’s SummerSault Festival, Sydney’s Opera Bar and Secret Garden Festival, Canberra’s Enlighten Festival, the Perth Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Womadelaide and elsewhere.
Side Pony takes its name from a song on the record that refers to a whimsical hairstyle, but it also serves as a metaphor for Lake Street Dive’s philosophy and personality as a band. As Kearney puts it:
“When we were settling on the album title, that one just stuck out to us as embodying the band’s spirit. We’ve always been this somewhat uncategorizable, weird, outlying, genre-less band. That’s the statement we wanted to make with this record: be yourself.”
According to a recent media release, Cobb’s working method gave the band an opportunity to experiment with sound and arrangements and to collaborate on songwriting in a way the band had never attempted before.
The members of Lake Street Dive met in 2004 as students at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music. Though they were all studying jazz, their work together was informed by their love of classic pop, particularly from the ’60s.
For several years, the group was a part-time proposition, but in 2012 Lake Street Dive became a full-time combo after a YouTube video of the quartet performing the Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back” on a Boston street corner went viral. Here is that video
Producer T Bone Burnett soon invited them to perform at a concert he curated at New York City’s Town Hall. Read about the subsequent CD here.
Side Pony is available to pre-order now on iTunes.
Track list, Side Pony:
Godawful Things
Close to Me
Call off Your Dogs
Spectacular Failure
I Don’t Care About You
So Long
How Good It Feels
Side Pony
Hell Yeah
Mistakes
Can’t Stop
Saving All My Sinning
Rachael Price of Lake Street Dive, Columbia Missouri 2014
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