Lakefield and their album “Swan Songs” were a band at their end when they released “Swan Songs” a hybrid of gentle indie pop and a scrubbed clean big hardcore sound. It has the witty intelligence of Belle and Sebastian lyrics the sound of a band not just accepting the end but taking it on their own terms, and blazing more brightly for it. “As a farewell this is a beautiful and bittersweet decline. Swan Songs has you fall in love with this band in their dying moments; awed by the bright flash of goodbye, their incandescence burnt into your memory.”
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The Fat Angel Sings 