Brendan Lake – Atlantis
Sometimes you just gotta strike out on your own… Just ask Brendan Lake. The 29-year-old Rochester lifer has spent plenty of time playing surf rock with his two brothers in acclaimed surf rock act Televisionaries. His new album, Atlantis, is the burgeoning singer/songwriter/Renaissance man writing, recording, producing, mixing, and mastering an album from start to finish, all by his lonesome. The result is a ten-song indie-pop LP called Atlantis, a “semi-concept” album about addiction, recovery, and sobriety; love and loss; and what it means to get older. You had us at indie-pop… The soul-crushing themes are just a bonus. For those reasons (and at least a few more), Atlantis is our Album of the Week. The album opens with “Fly,” an archetypal Lake song, and one of the strongest songs on the album. Immediately, the familiar sting of stabby, DI acoustic guitar makes its way through your preferred listening[...]