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New Music

Listen: Lakes – Blood of the Grove

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Here’s the title track to Lakes’ new LP Blood of the Grove, which is due out “very soon” through No Patience Records, or right now through Avant! if you want to import it. It’s the second sampler we’ve heard thus far: ‘Painted Wreath‘ released back in May, offering the first taste of what the new Lakes three-piece sounds like (unless you were lucky enough to get one of those excellent Spring Torch live cassettes last year). It launches August 24 in Melbourne at the Tote alongside White Hex and Prolife.

In semi-related news, No Patience is also releasing a TAX 7 inch next month, a Melbourne group featuring Lakes’ Sean Bailey, along with Simon Taylor (Whitehorse) and JK Fuller (himself, ZOND).

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New Music

Listen: Lakes – Hidden Sun (Live)

Sean Bailey’s back-catalogue is slowly turning into one of those unwieldy beasts that may intimidate the uninitiated or vaguely curious, but you shouldn’t feel that way, honestly, because his work is worth following closely. It’s because Lakes is pretty much its own thing in a way that very few other bands/artists are: just pick up one record and give it at least three spins (because his records are slow to bud) and Bailey’s rather grating vocals will just suddenly make sense. It’s a challenge worth rising to.

So, yeah, a live cassette is probably something only diehards are going to go in for, but judging from cursory listens (full review soon) the fidelity is top quality for a live release, and in some ways it’s kinda cleaner than his LPs: the guitar melodies during ‘Hidden Sun’ (from Winter’s Blade, 2011) are very crisp indeed. It’s from Spring Torch, which is a new Pretentious Tapes release which you can order now.

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