LAKE STREET DIVE
''BAD SELF PORTRAITS''
FEBRUARY 18 2014
39:22
1 /Bad Self Portraits
Bridget Kearney 3:24
2 /Stop Your Crying
Mike Calabrese 3:34
3 /Better Than
Bridget Kearney 3:35
4 /Rabid Animal
Bridget Kearney 2:13
5 /You Go Down Smooth
Mike "McDuck" Olson 3:29
6 /Use Me Up
Mike "McDuck" Olson 3:57
7 /Bobby Tanqueray
Mike Calabrese 3:32
8 /Just Ask
Mike "McDuck" Olson 5:05
9 /Seventeen
Bridget Kearney 3:39
10 /What About Me
Mike Calabrese 4:17
11 /Rental Love
Bridget Kearney 2:37
Sam Kassirer /Organ, Piano, Producer
Bridget Kearney /Bass, Piano, Vocals
Mike Calabrese /Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Mike "McDuck" Olson /Guitar, Piano, Trombone, Trumpet, Vocals
Rachel Price /Vocals
REVIEW
by Matt Collar
Bad Self Portraits is eclectic Boston band Lake Street Dive's third studio album, and the group's sixth release overall. Produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Erin McKeown), the album comes two years after the group's covers EP, Fun Machine. Rather than revisit that album's neat gimmick of a jazz-soul band covering contemporary pop songs, Lake Street Dive instead delve into a substantial batch of their own blue-eyed-soul and Southern rock-inflected originals. Once again, the album showcases lead singer Rachel Price's resonant, old-school singing, which is still the main reason to listen to Lake Street Dive. Of course, with her band backing her at various times with harmony vocals, jazzy trumpet, crunchy tube guitar riffs, and woody jazz basslines, there's always something rootsy and unexpected happening around her on Bad Self Portraits. There is a buoyant creativity to many of Lake Street Dive's arrangements, and cuts like "Bobby Tanqueray" and "Seventeen" reveal such time-tested influences as late-'60s Muscle Shoals-influenced soul and Dusty Springfield-esque pop.
BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Leggett
Boston's Lake Street Dive are a fascinating blend of influences and complexity: jazz at heart, with an alternative D.I.Y. sensibility and a passion for classic rock and garage aesthetics. The band, comprised of singer Rachael Price, drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, and trumpet-playing guitarist Mike "McDuck" Olson, first met and formed at Boston's New England Conservatory. The initial idea was to be a kind of free jazz country band, playing country songs in an avant-garde style, but the group's natural pop instincts kicked in, and the final sound the band came up with was a bright, fresh, charming, and exploratory version of jazzy pop/rock, full of hooks and plenty of R&B and soul flavors, with a big dose of the Beatles and British Invasion bands. The versatility involved in the music means Lake Street Dive are equally at home on an acoustic stage, at a summer festival, in a rock bar, or in a jazz club, and they quickly gathered a following on the east coast. The band independently released In This Episode… in 2007 and Promises, Promises in 2008 before hooking up with Signature Records, who issued their self-titled effort in 2011. The EP Fun Machine followed in 2012 and featured five cover versions (such as Jackson Five's "I Want You Back" and Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl") along with one original song. The album Bad Self Portraits appeared in 2014 with its "selfie"-referencing title track, also released as a single.
OFFICIAL SITE
''BAD SELF PORTRAITS''
FEBRUARY 18 2014
39:22
1 /Bad Self Portraits
Bridget Kearney 3:24
2 /Stop Your Crying
Mike Calabrese 3:34
3 /Better Than
Bridget Kearney 3:35
4 /Rabid Animal
Bridget Kearney 2:13
5 /You Go Down Smooth
Mike "McDuck" Olson 3:29
6 /Use Me Up
Mike "McDuck" Olson 3:57
7 /Bobby Tanqueray
Mike Calabrese 3:32
8 /Just Ask
Mike "McDuck" Olson 5:05
9 /Seventeen
Bridget Kearney 3:39
10 /What About Me
Mike Calabrese 4:17
11 /Rental Love
Bridget Kearney 2:37
Sam Kassirer /Organ, Piano, Producer
Bridget Kearney /Bass, Piano, Vocals
Mike Calabrese /Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Mike "McDuck" Olson /Guitar, Piano, Trombone, Trumpet, Vocals
Rachel Price /Vocals
REVIEW
by Matt Collar
Bad Self Portraits is eclectic Boston band Lake Street Dive's third studio album, and the group's sixth release overall. Produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Erin McKeown), the album comes two years after the group's covers EP, Fun Machine. Rather than revisit that album's neat gimmick of a jazz-soul band covering contemporary pop songs, Lake Street Dive instead delve into a substantial batch of their own blue-eyed-soul and Southern rock-inflected originals. Once again, the album showcases lead singer Rachel Price's resonant, old-school singing, which is still the main reason to listen to Lake Street Dive. Of course, with her band backing her at various times with harmony vocals, jazzy trumpet, crunchy tube guitar riffs, and woody jazz basslines, there's always something rootsy and unexpected happening around her on Bad Self Portraits. There is a buoyant creativity to many of Lake Street Dive's arrangements, and cuts like "Bobby Tanqueray" and "Seventeen" reveal such time-tested influences as late-'60s Muscle Shoals-influenced soul and Dusty Springfield-esque pop.
BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Leggett
Boston's Lake Street Dive are a fascinating blend of influences and complexity: jazz at heart, with an alternative D.I.Y. sensibility and a passion for classic rock and garage aesthetics. The band, comprised of singer Rachael Price, drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, and trumpet-playing guitarist Mike "McDuck" Olson, first met and formed at Boston's New England Conservatory. The initial idea was to be a kind of free jazz country band, playing country songs in an avant-garde style, but the group's natural pop instincts kicked in, and the final sound the band came up with was a bright, fresh, charming, and exploratory version of jazzy pop/rock, full of hooks and plenty of R&B and soul flavors, with a big dose of the Beatles and British Invasion bands. The versatility involved in the music means Lake Street Dive are equally at home on an acoustic stage, at a summer festival, in a rock bar, or in a jazz club, and they quickly gathered a following on the east coast. The band independently released In This Episode… in 2007 and Promises, Promises in 2008 before hooking up with Signature Records, who issued their self-titled effort in 2011. The EP Fun Machine followed in 2012 and featured five cover versions (such as Jackson Five's "I Want You Back" and Hall & Oates' "Rich Girl") along with one original song. The album Bad Self Portraits appeared in 2014 with its "selfie"-referencing title track, also released as a single.
OFFICIAL SITE
