Bad Self Portraits [LP]

by Lake Street Dive

Overview

Bad Self Portraits is eclectic Boston band Lake Street Dive's third studio album, and the group's sixth release overall. 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. ~ Matt Collar

Product Details

Release Date:	03/18/2014
Label:	Signature Sounds
UPC:	0701237700724
Rank:	8605

Tracks

1. Bad Self Portraits
2. Stop Your Crying
3. Better Than
4. Rabid Animal
5. You Go Down Smooth
6. Use Me Up
7. Bobby Tanqueray
8. Just Ask
9. Seventeen
10. What About Me
11. Rental Love

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lake Street Dive   Primary Artist
Mike Calabrese   Drums,Vocals,Percussion
Sam Kassirer   Organ,Piano
Bridget Kearney   Bass,Piano,Vocals
Rachel Price   Vocals
Mike "McDuck" Olson   Piano,Guitar,Vocals,Trumpet,Trombone

Technical Credits

Mike Calabrese   Composer
Jeff Lipton   Mastering
Sam Kassirer   Mixing,Producer
Philip Price   Graphic Design
Bridget Kearney   Composer
Erik Hischmann   Assistant
Mike "McDuck" Olson   Composer
Maria Rice   Assistant Mastering Engineer
Gudrun Guillo   Executive Producer
Jarrod McCabe   Photography
Robert Guillo   Executive Producer