“Bad Self Portraits” by Lake Street Dive

"Bad Self Portraits" gave Lake Street Dive's fourth album its title, and the song had to wait its turn: the band cut the record in 2012, then watched it sit on the shelf while contract trouble dragged on until October 2013, before Signature Sounds finally released it in February 2014.

They made it at the Great North Sound Society, a studio inside an 18th-century farmhouse out in rural Maine, working with Sam Kassirer, and by the band's account they went in without any expectations about what people wanted from them. Released as a single, the title song picked up airplay on adult alternative radio: bright, easygoing pop from a band that sounds like it's enjoying every minute.

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