Bad Self Portraits by Lake Street Dive

Bad Self Portraits, the fourth album from Lake Street Dive, finally arrived on Signature Sounds Recordings on February 18, 2014, after sitting on the shelf since the band cut it in 2012 while contract snags got sorted out. The four who formed the group at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston went up to the Great North Sound Society, tucked inside a farmhouse in the Maine countryside that dates to the 18th century, to make it with producer Sam Kassirer.

The result is warm, loose-limbed, vintage-flavored pop, with Rachael Price's big, burnished voice out front, Bridget Kearney's upright bass bouncing underneath, Mike Calabrese on drums and Mike "McDuck" Olson adding guitar and trumpet. Price has said they walked in with no expectations about what anybody wanted from them, and the unhurried, playful feel shows it. The title track found a home on adult alternative radio.

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