Second Full-Length Album On Vinyl LP!
Rachael Price delivers hearty, old-school lead vocals backed by a talented group of musicians on bass, drums, piano, guitar, etc. who are also responsible for harmonizing backing vocals.
"...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." - allmusic.com
Features:
Vinyl LP
Musicians:
Rachael Price, lead vocals
Mike "McDuck" Olson, guitar, trumpet, trombone, piano, vocals
Bridget Kearney, bass, piano, vocals
Mike Calabrese, drums, percussion, vocals
Sam Kassirer, piano, organ
Selections:
Side A:
1. Bad Self Portraits
2. Stop Your Crying
3. Better Than
4. Rabid Animal
5. You Go Down Smooth
6. Use Me Up
Side B:
7. Bobby Tanqueray
8. Just Ask
9. Seventeen
10. What About Me
11. Rental Love
Rachael Price delivers hearty, old-school lead vocals backed by a talented group of musicians on bass, drums, piano, guitar, etc. who are also responsible for harmonizing backing vocals.
"...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." - allmusic.com
Features:
Vinyl LP
Musicians:
Rachael Price, lead vocals
Mike "McDuck" Olson, guitar, trumpet, trombone, piano, vocals
Bridget Kearney, bass, piano, vocals
Mike Calabrese, drums, percussion, vocals
Sam Kassirer, piano, organ
Selections:
Side A:
1. Bad Self Portraits
2. Stop Your Crying
3. Better Than
4. Rabid Animal
5. You Go Down Smooth
6. Use Me Up
Side B:
7. Bobby Tanqueray
8. Just Ask
9. Seventeen
10. What About Me
11. Rental Love
