The SCUM tape series is a project to promote some of our favorite artists and tracks.
Dropping once a while, we want to show you the finest selections done mostly by our local heroes and residents.

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Saturday / Second / 04:45 - 06:15

If you like this song, please buy it at: http://laketheband.bandcamp.com/album/no-wonder-i

LAKE's website:  http://www.laketheband.com

(from LAKE's last.fm entry:) "LAKE is based in Olympia, WA and Los Angeles. LAKE is a group of cloudy individuals brought together through lines drawn along Interstate-5, intersecting in Olympia around 2005. Since forming, they have gained and lost members, recorded 12 full length albums (only 3 of which have seen proper release), played across the world supporting such talented acts as Adrian Orange and Her Band, Half Handed Cloud, Laura Veirs, and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. The sounds they craft are straight from the playbook of the good parts of Billy Joel, Fleetwood Mac, and Turkish psychedelic music. Caressing the Rhodes piano, endearing drum fills, guitars that don't sound like guitars, and some slamming bass lines: listening to LAKE is like pouring sugar in your ears. They'll turn your brain into chocolate, 67% cacao. Lake began as a Fleetwood Mac cover band with the intention…

Track #5 from the album "Spirit of the Stairwell"