L A K E I N F E R I O R
They met wearing Pokemon costumes outside the WXYC 80’s Dance Party, and it was love at first sight. Over the course of the next several months, they started sharing guitar riffs, vocal melodies, and an apartment living room. Perhaps it was Nasir Abbas’ Chippendale costume at a Dressed to Get Screwed Party or maybe it was Derek Torres’ “Crust-tache,” but somehow Lake Inferior was able to win the hearts and minds of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro community and ultimately found itself as the flagship band for UNC-Chapel Hill’s student record label Vinyl Records. A steady gig as the Saint Anthony’s Hall house band turned into opening slots for Deerhunter, Times New Viking, the Rosebuds, and Annuals, and the sold out, debut Lake Inferior EP has led to demand for a new 10” coming out mid-November 2009.
Set on a foundation of danceable polyrhythms alluding to Eno-era Talking Heads, Lake Inferior envelops itself in thick electric guitars and synthesizers while still allowing catchy pop melodies to seep through; the newly added Roland sampler anchors the band in the crosshairs of the new wave of electronic rock music.
Press Coverage
The Independent Weekly
"[...] with glowing indie pop that elicits thoughts of Brian Eno's pop production. Stark but warm, dynamic but restrained, Lake Inferior is already a fully functional unit, but still radiates the promise of even better things to come."
Aquarium Drunkard
"“Lake Inferior excel in composition and the EP strolls through its six songs with a fierce confidence in its work...it’s the note-perfect “Spiders” that is the crown jewel of this EP and that will undoubtedly have people dancing, figuratively or literally…It’s a swinging, pulsing, living song that is impossible to ignore. It sounds, underneath, like the cartoony music that should underline some mammoth creature’s stroll through the underbrush."
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