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LAKE STREET DIVE’S NEW ALBUM, FREE YOURSELF UP, DUE OUT ON NONESUCH RECORDS ON MAY 4th 2018

March 3, 2018

LAKE STREET DIVE’S NEW ALBUM, FREE YOURSELF UP, DUE OUT ON NONESUCH RECORDS ON MAY 4, 2018
BAND SHARES IN-STUDIO VIDEO FOR SINGLE ‘GOOD KISSER’
LONDON SHOW ANNOUNCED FOR OCTOBER

‘LSD boasts an unflagging collective charisma and sense of humor that will take them far.’ – Rolling Stone

 

Lake Street Dive will release Free Yourself Up, its second album with Nonesuch Records, on May 4.  The four-member band –drummer Michael Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, singer Rachael Price, and guitarist/trumpeter Michael “McDuck” Olson – self-produced the album at Goosehead Palace Studios in Nashville with engineer Dan Knobler.  Tour dates to support Free Yourself Up begin with an intimate show at The Sinclair in the bands original home of Boston on release day.  The tour also includes a UK date at London’s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on October 11. 

Free Yourself Up is available to pre-order now at iTuneslakestreetdive.com, and nonesuch.com, where the album track Good Kisseris available for instant download; Nonesuch Store pre-orders also include an exclusive print autographed by the band.  ‘Good Kisser’ is also streaming at Spotify and Apple Music.  The band also shares a performance video of ‘Good Kisser’, recorded at Goosehead Palace Studios, which can be seen here.

To Lake Street Dive, the title, Free Yourself Up, is both an exhortation to listeners and a statement of purpose for the band.  In many ways, this is the bands most intimate and collaborative record, with the band working as a tightly knit unit to craft its ten songs.  For this album, the quartet drafted touring keyboardist Akie Bermiss to join them in the studio as well as on stage.  Adding another player to the process freed up the band members to explore a wider range of instrumental textures, construct more full-bodied arrangements, and build on their well-known background harmonies.

Free Yourself Up is the follow up to the bands Nonesuch Records debut Side Pony. The band toured eighteen months for that album, including a sold-out headlining show at Radio City Music Hall.  Side Pony album was lauded in the press, with Rolling Stone calling it ‘irresistible’, and the Boston Globe saying, ‘Side Pony is a confident, expertly played statement from a band thats been honing its approach for more than a decade, and it clearly shows that Lake Street Dive is ready to make itself known to whatever audiences have yet to succumb to its many charms.’

“This album is based in the realities in our time,” Kearney reflects, “which have inevitably become part of everyones daily life.  Its something you think about and obsess over – and write songs about.  Free Yourself Up is about empowering yourself, emboldening yourself, no matter whats going wrong.”

1.             Baby Dont Leave Me Alone With My Thoughts

2.             Good Kisser

3.             Shame, Shame, Shame

4.             I Can Change

5.             Dude

6.             Red Light Kisses

7.             Doesnt Even Matter Now

8.             You Are Free

9.             Musta Been Something

10.          Hang On

 lakestreetdive.com

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1 Comment

  • Reply dixiwonderland March 18, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    Thank you girl!! We learned from the best!

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