Genre: Rock/Progressive Year: 2003 Country: USA Official Site: Lake Trout Details: Tracks & Audio Label: Palm Pictures
When I received Lake Trout's new CD, Another One Lost, and looked at the cover, a sudden thrill of terror went up my spine, inducing a fear in me that some death metal would traumatize my CD player. Instead to my surprise, I discovered a sophisticated band whose influences range from Radiohead to prog-rock and psychedelic with a slight taste for electronica & industrial.
Their songs are dark, moody, abstract, sometimes menacing, trading Radiohead's arty and cerebral approach for psychedelic landscapes. The main issue here is that the band, whose music is certainly ambitious, would find more artistic legitimacy if Singer Woody Ranere would drop some of his Tom Yorke incantations and focus on his own voice, whose flexibility and range are deep enough to give the band its own identity.
I like "Stutter" as an opener, as the song hits you without developing into a full-scale standard song. You know right away that you are not gonna be treated to the usual structured music format built around catchy choruses. Lake Trout's music is stretched, somewhat decomposed, as "Say something can attest". Some songs don't seem to go anywhere—mostly interludes like "Her" & "Still"—while others take time to build, in the progressive rock tradition, to finally reveal their beauty-listen to "Holding".
The rest of the album sometimes has an OK Computer feel—"Biss"—but the band still manages to convey something special that anticipates some greater work in the future.
Lake Trout Another One Lost
