Obviously

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They take all the most fun bits of pop, soul, disco, jazz, rock and roll and stitch them together into something all their own.

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Motown-meets-Muscle Shoals soul nostalgia Rachael Prices big voice triggers flashbacks of Amy Winehouse and her forebears. Rolling Stone

Obviously is the new album from beloved band Lake Street Dive. It includes the new single Nobodys Stopping You Now, a letter of encouragement from lead vocalist Rachael Price to her teenaged self, co-written with bassist Bridget Kearney. Lake Street Dive has figured out how to write tunes that reflect this particularly turbulent chapter in our shared history. The album track Making Do, which was released at the end of last year, speaks to the world that future generations are inheriting while exploring the lasting impacts of climate change and our responsibility to address it (featuring a cameo from Senator Ed Markey who co-sponsored the Green New Deal).

As Price puts it, Youre trying to express your anxieties, your feelings, your sadness, your happiness, all of these things your authentic state of being in a song. But youre also trying to create something people will listen to over and over again. Thats the unique fun thing about music, putting these messages into three and a half minute snippets, dropping whatever truth we can and hoping its the type of thing that people want to ruminate on.

Obviously was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Mike Elizondo who is best known as a songwriting collaborator for Dr. Dre, Eminem, and 50 Cent and has also served as a record producer for Fiona Apple, Mary J. Blige, Carrie Underwood, and 21 Pilots, among many others. Utilizing Elizondos hip-hop record-making expertise coupled with the permanent addition of keyboardist Akie Bermiss, Lake Street Dives wide-ranging taste in pop, rock, R&B, and jazz have blended together to make an impressively cohesive sound, combining retro influences with a contemporary attitude. Weve been a band for so long that we didnt want to just become a feedback loop of our own ideas, recounts Kearney. It felt like a really good time to bring another person like Mike [Elizondo], and he really opened us up. He encouraged us to make bolder arrangement choices, take those chances and try those things. The record really is a success in what we set out to do: continue to challenge ourselves, continue to grow, and do things weve never done before.

The members of Lake Street Dive founded the group in 2004 while attending the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. The band features Rachael Price (lead vocals), Mike McDuck Olson (trumpet, guitar), Bridget Kearney (bass) and Mike Calabrese (drums) as well as their newest member Akie Bermiss (keyboards), who has been a touring member of the group since 2017. Since the bands inception, they have released six studio albums. Their 2018 self-produced record, Free Yourself Up, debuted at #4 on the USs Top Album Chart and charted #8 on the Billboard 200. In addition, the albums hit single Good Kisser peaked at #5 at Americana radio and appeared in the Top 20 at AAA radio, both career peaks for the band. The group has toured worldwide performing at major music festivals including Bonnaroo, New Orleans Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival while preforming alongside artists such as T Bone Burnett, The Avett Brothers, Robert Finley, Jack Johnson and Trombone Shorty.