LAKE

Pacific Northwest and Los Angeles-based group LAKE has been an indie rock institution since their formation in 2005, with their distinctive brand of soft rock. Today, the trio of multi-instrumentalists Ashley Eriksson, Eli Moore, and Andrew Dorsett continues with their 10th album, Bucolic Gone, out March 7, 2025.
It was fellow Northwest recording artist Karl Blau (now Philadelphia-based) who became the band's first producer and champion through his subscription-based underground music series KELP. In 2010, the band found a wider audience when Eriksson contributed "Island Song (Come Along With Me/Christmas Island)" to the end credits of the hit Cartoon Network show Adventure Time. In their now-almost-20-year-long career, they have released a series of consistently classic albums, including four LPs on the seminal Olympia-based label K Records.

The idiosyncratic "LAKE sound" ranges from avant-garde and soft rock to "experimental pop" and "elevator punk" (an invented genre based on a joke from a friend of the band). Their influences, crossing continents and generations, include Prefab Sprout, Yo La Tengo, ABBA, Fleetwood Mac, REM, and Burt Bacharach.