Side Pony

Description

Lake Street Dive’s Nonesuch Records debut album, Side Pony, will be released
on February 19, 2016. The four band members—drummer Michael Calabrese, bassist
Bridget Kearney, singer Rachael Price, and guitarist/trumpeter Michael
“McDuck” Olson—worked with Nashville-based producer Dave Cobb (Sturgill
Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Secret Sisters) on the record. Tour dates to
supportSide Ponybegin February 22 in Phoenix and include stops in Los Angeles,
Chicago, Washington, New York, and more; tickets go on sale next Thursday,
November 19. Side Pony takes its name from a song on the record that refers to
a whimsical hairstyle, but it also serves as a metaphor for Lake Street Dive’s
philosophy and personality as a band. As Kearney puts it, “When we were
settling on the album title, that one just stuck out to us as embodying the
band’s spirit. We’ve always been this somewhat uncategorizable, weird,
outlying, genre-less band. That’s the statement we wanted to make with this
record: be yourself.” Olson echoes her sentiment: “It has also come to mean
anything you’re doing for the sheer joy of it. We have always ‘rocked our side
pony.’ Now we have a convenient phrase for it.” Cobb’s working method was to
keep the recording fast and loose, as live-in-the-studio as possible, and to
embrace the unorthodox. This provided Lake Street Dive with a welcome
challenge: an opportunity to experiment with sound and arrangements and to
collaborate on songwriting in a way the band had never attempted before.
Calabrese says of the recording process, “Dave’s process was mercurial,
changing direction quickly, going from ‘we don’t have anything’ to ‘we’ve got
it!'” He continues, “We weren’t always so sure. But then we’d listen to a comp
and we’d agree that he’d heard something we hadn’t.” Price adds, “It was great
to see, through this particular recording process, how beautifully our
individual strengths complement each other.”

Features:

Product Details:

• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.67 x 4.92 x 0.24 inches; 1.76 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Nonesuch
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ NNS551913.2
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2016
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ November 26, 2015
• Label ‏ : ‎ Nonesuch
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA