I love Lake Trout, their latest release is on my Top 5 of this year. I've seen them twice recently and both shows were great.
They've really changed over the years. When they first started they did a lot of instrumentals and were sort of embraced by the jamband community. Hippies loved them at first, but have since turned on them because they are NOT a jamband. Indie folks have never really embraced them. Now they're sort of labeled "alternative". A review says:
"Lake Trout is a whopper of a band, and Not Them, You is the kind of disc you stuff and proudly display above your mantlepiece. They may still get lumped in with the jam band masses, but it's entirely unjustified; their current approach incorporates elements of indie groove, an electronic edge and even a dose of New Wave, then builds on that foundation with tasteful doses of psychedelia and guitar menace. The product of a year spent working with producers Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Delgados) and Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev), Not Them, You brims with all the bravado and swagger that its title suggests."
They added more vocals and different song structures.....they got a lot of acclaim a few years ago and were picked up by Gary Kurfist, who managed the Ramones. Chris Blackwell (U2, Marley, Siouxsie) signed them to his label after he sold Island. None of that worked out, for various reasons, and they are sort of on their own now, but their agent at William Morris still really believes in them, that's how they got the opening slot for Pixies on a few dates.
Instrumentation is lead guitar, lead vocals/rhythm guitar, bass, drums, keys/flute (yes, flute).
Have a great show, wish I could be there, but I'll be out of town.
