mixtape maestro

Coming across like a long-forgotten 60′s/ 70′s-based treasure one discovers when curiously rummaging through their parents’ vinyl collection, Olympia, Washington-birthed act LAKE have spent the past four years slowly winning over fans with an addicting brew of gorgeously constructed unisex vocal interchanges and a hazed-over and charmingly child-like lo-fi twee-pop sound that, when leaving the speakers, seems to instantly dissipate into an air-sweetening mist.

And going by the two early leaked previews of their forthcoming third full length Let’s Build A Roof, the follow-up to last year’s much-acclaimed K Records debut Oh The Places We’ll Go, we’re betting that that audience will only continue to expand further.

“Don’t Give Up”, the most recent of the two leaks, arises as an immediate favorite with it’s happy-go-lucky, Fleetwood Mac-ish swing and female vocals that cleverly disguise the lyrics’ adult-age concerns with some lightly-toned perkiness. But it’s the mid-summer-unleashed “Madagascar” that’ll really slay you, thanks to the hypnotizing magic of it’s sluggish, blue-eyed dub-funk and the group’s playful vocal arrangement on the hook.

Let’s Build A Roof arrives October 6th.

DL: “Don’t Give Up” (alt)

DL: “Madagascar” (alt)