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Genre: Alternative/Indie Rock

waveform* w/ They are Gutting a Body of Water + Teethe

Lost Lake Presents waveform* with They are Gutting a Body of Water and Teethe on Wednesday, July 19 –On Last Room, the third album from the Connecticut-based waveform*,,there’s a purposeful hollowness. It’s a record you canfall into, a collection of music that’s unafraid to venture into emotion, exploring the gaping distance that develops in somerelationships, the constant confusion that accompanies self-discovery, andthe darkness that accompanies abandonment.Nothing is said outright on Last Room. There’s no declaration of material certainty that allows you to fully discover every secretor moment of meaning on this recording, but the duo comprised of Jarett Denner and Dan Poppa intended it to be that way.They want you to step into their cavernous auditory journey, to lose yourself in a state of wandering as you find your own story,creating a personal narrative gleaned from their collection of mysteries.Recorded on a laptop in Jarett’s bedroom, the album comes with a discernible feeling of intimacy. Despite their close proximityto one another, Jarett and Dan chose to complete much of the album apart, exchanging ideas and finishing bits of musicthrough email. Theytraded off responsibilities, one focusing on a song’s structure, while another considered the emotionaldetails and coloring.”Hello Goodbye” is the only of the album’s singles that waveform* considers to be collaborative, as the two worked on ittogether before it was recorded. It’s also among the record’s most poignant and reflective, a back-and-forth of admitted uneaseplaced between continued pleas for someone to stay are set against lush, light guitar. Its final moments are one of admittance,as a repetition lyrical confession (“I can’t relax at all”) is left to linger.That same rare moment of confession is also etched within the charge of “Blue Disaster.” It’s a track that sways between twoenergies, trading out an electric beginning and a calamitous conclusion for the occasional quiet that punctuates devastatinglyhonest lyrics: “I was on a tightrope all the time/had a blue disaster but it’s fine/there was something i was reaching for/butthat’s no more.”Formed while still in high school, waveform* was created out of the pair’s mutual appreciation for music. Over the last fewyears, waveform* has continued to grow, attributing an increasing interest in fans to an era dominated by Internet discoveryand streaming. A sound comparable to Melania Kol,Alex G., Title Fight, Have a Nice Life, and Teen Suicide, the band has alsoperformed live with Strange Ranger, Beach Bunny, Pince Daddy and the Hyena, and Lomelda. Their previous releases–Shooting Star and Library–were released in 2018 and 2019. Last Room, released in 2020, is being rereleased through Run forCover Records.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Elf Power w/ The Tammy Shine (of Dressy Bessy)

Lost Lake Presents Elf Power with The Tammy Shine (of Dressy Bessy) on Wednesday, June 21st. “Artificial countrysides” is the term Elf Power coined to describe the gray zones where the natural world collides with the creeping encroachment of the digital realm, where the balance between real and simulated can shift from one minute to the next. Artificial Countrysides is also the name of the Athens, Ga., band’s new album, their first since 2017 and their first for Yep Roc. It’s a collection of 12 spellbinding psych-laced songs that blur the line between traditional and futuristic while seeking to make sense of our relationship to each. The idea behind the name of the album has a more concrete application, too. “That title also describes the songwriting process, of world-building or creating an artificial landscape within a song,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Rieger says. He and his Elf Power bandmates — drummer Peter Alvanos and guitarist Dave Wrathgabar, with contributions from keyboard player Laura Carter — have created some of the band’s most expansive musical terrain yet.  Artificial Countrysides pushes Elf Power’s music in unexpected directions that accentuate the psych-rock sound the band has been honing for close to 30 years. Along with a blend of fuzz-tone electric and layered acoustic guitars, Moog keyboards and lively drums, the group experimented with the sounds of marimba, Mellotron, harpsichord, synth bass and distorted drum machine loops, all topped with melodies that echo in your head long after the music stops. The effect is electrifying, on songs that are unmistakably from Elf Power, yet muscular and propulsive in a distinctive new way. The juxtaposition comes to vivid life on first single “The Gas Inside the Tank.” The song pairs organ and woozy slide guitar with synth bass and the sound of a gurgling Moog for an effect at once disorienting and enveloping, as Rieger imagines a post-apocalyptic world full of deserted cities where people have resorted to siphoning gas from abandoned vehicles. On the second single, album opener “Undigested Parts,” Rieger doubles his vibrant vocal melody with an unsettling whisper as he ponders how unprocessed events and emotions can erupt at unexpected times, pushed along by a dense blanket of fuzzed-out guitars, ethereal keyboards and a mix of live and programmed drums.  Elf Power is nearly always working on new music, and the dozen songs on Artificial Countrysides were among 20 or so that began taking shape not long after the group released 2017’s Twitching in Time. Though the band made some of the new album at The Glow studio in Athens, pandemic considerations meant the musicians often recorded their parts by themselves at home. Fortunately, they were in no hurry. In fact, Artificial Countrysides makes a persuasive case that Elf Power is at its most creative when the musicians work without time constraints. After all, if songwriting is about building your own world, the clocks can run on whatever time you want. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Flamingos in the Tree w/ Silver Cup

Lost Lake Presents Flamingos in the Tree and Silver Cup on Monday, July 31 –(Reno, NV) – Multi-platform virality & editorial playlisting has thrust the basement-pop band’s debut LP sunsets that i had w u to the ears of unsuspecting listeners. Locally, they’re hard to ignore – the four stick out like a sore thumb in a city that’s praised metal and punk for decades. Arguably, that’s why they’re geared for success; it’s hard to resist rooting for the elephant in the room, or rather, the Flamingos in the Tree.- 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

Indré w/ Redamancy + Blankslate

Lost Lake Presents Indré with Redamancy and Blankslate on Thursday, August 3rd. – 16+, under 16 admitted with ticketed guardian

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