{"title":"Lanterns On The Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanterns On The Lake is an indie rock band hailing from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. Formed by Hazel Wilde, Paul Gregory, Bob Allan, Ol Ketteringham, and Angela Chan, the band has gained recognition for their unique sound and captivating performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a blend of atmospheric melodies and heartfelt lyrics, Lanterns On The Lake creates music that resonates with listeners on a deep level. Their introspective songwriting explores themes of love, loss, and the human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving released several critically acclaimed albums over the years, including \"Gracious Tide, Take Me Home\" and \"Beings,\" Lanterns On The Lake has established themselves as one of the most influential bands in the indie rock scene. Their music has garnered praise for its emotional depth and sonic beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"versions-of-us","title":"Versions Of Us","description":"\u003cp\u003eTyneside’s Lanterns on the Lake release their much-anticipated album, \u003ci\u003eVersions of Us\u003c\/i\u003e. This self-produced fifth studio album follows 2020’s Mercury nominated \u003ci\u003eSpook the Herd\u003c\/i\u003e. Its nine songs are existential meditations examining life’s possibilities, facing the hand we’ve been dealt and the question of whether we can change our individual and collective destinies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSinger and songwriter Hazel Wilde has no doubt that motherhood fundamentally shifted her perspective. “Writing songs requires a certain level of self-indulgence, and songwriters can be prone to dwelling on themselves,” she says. “Motherhood made me aware at having a different stake in the world. I’ve got to believe that there’s a better way and an alternative future to the one we’ve been hurtling towards. I’ve also got to believe that I could be better as a person, too.”\u2028\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMixed by the band’s guitarist Paul Gregory, in the bedroom of his home in North Shields, there is a sense of time and place that runs deep throughout this record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven some of its themes, a biting irony is found in an entire previous version of the record being discarded. Mental health struggles and personal problems in the band had a big impact on how the initial version took shape. “Despite trying everything we could to make it work we reached the point where we just had to stop” Wilde explains. Drummer Ol Ketteringham parted ways with the band, something Wilde says was “heartbreakingly difficult as we were and still are extremely close”. \u2028\u2028The band scrapped nearly a year’s worth of work, regressing to song demos with just Wilde performing with a single instrument as they began again with Radiohead’s Philip Selway joining the album sessions on drums. “Philip brought an energy to the songs that reignited our belief in them,” says Wilde. “Within a few weeks we had a whole other version of the album and things felt very different,” Wilde continues. “We had changed the destiny of the record.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s a heartening idea. Despite the difficulties in its genesis, Versions of Us is the most empowering album yet from the band. In exploring whether we can change fate or are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in life, this powerful collection of songs ultimately alights on hope. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"Orange LP","offer_id":50442591469899,"sku":"2014128","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50442591011147,"sku":"2014127","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/G2WsYfcQ_d793c758_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727001305"},{"product_id":"beings-1","title":"Beings","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo years on from the critically acclaimed 'Until The Colours Run', Lanterns On The Lake return with their third full-length record 'Beings', released on Bella Union. It marks another leap in the band's development as they expand their range, pushing the envelope of their signature atmospheric rock and scaling new heights of absorbing song-craft. 'Beings' moves seamlessly from airy, chiming beauty to dense, forbidding soundscapes - sometimes in the same song - while still feeling like the product of a cohesive unit, retaining the band's spark. Opening song 'Of Dust and Matter' strikes a perfect balance. The band's most sinister moment yet, it prowls out of a burble of radio static and feedback, propelled by ominous piano chords as its menacing pulse builds to a tumbling climax of almost discordant, warped guitar parts and the fractured drumming of Ol Ketteringham. 'Beings' is the engrossing product of a band operating in total harmony to the point where their music creates its own idiosyncratic world whilst also distilling outside concerns into it. The horizons open to Lanterns on the Lake are now as broad as the sweep of these beautiful songs.LP - Limited White Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bella Union","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494682399051,"sku":"393226","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4dffa6d0-7326-4437-9ec3-97425c8e7f9d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727707370"},{"product_id":"spook-the-herd","title":"Spook The Herd","description":"\u003cp\u003eLanterns On The Lake release their new studio album, \u003ci\u003eSpook The Herd\u003c\/i\u003e,via Bella Union. It’s strange – not to mention fundamentally disconcerting - to live through turbulent times. Yet as many feel like the world is slipping out of control, artists are enlivened as they seek to make sense of the shifting sands. Hazel Wilde of Lanterns on the Lake is now a songwriter necessarily emboldened. On \u003ci\u003eSpook the Herd\u003c\/i\u003e, the band’s fourth record, her voice and preoccupations rise to the fore like never before. In tandem, the band break new ground on a set of songs that are direct and crucial. Wilde does nothing less than dive headlong into the existential crises of our times. Beginning with the record’s title - a pointed comment at the dangerously manipulative tactics of ideologues - its nine songs turn the microscope to issues including our hopelessly polarized politics, social media, addiction, grief and the climate crisis. The world is brought into focus, but Wilde’s style is not declarative. She also proves herself a songwriter possessed of a rare talent for finding the personal contours to contemporary issues, fully inhabiting them to make them real. Recorded as live where possible, the band’s natural touchstones of gauzy dream-pop and monumental post rock still float in the air, but listening to Lanterns on the Lake now feels like actually sitting in the corner of the room as they play. As guitarist and producer Paul Gregory says of approaching their fourth album, “There was a sense of release in terms of what kind of music we felt we could make. The idea of what kind of band you’re supposed to be really disappeared. 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Of the track and EP vocalist Hazel Wilde says: “The Realist is a song about being a dreamer, clinging to a vision and following your heart - even when that path can seem deluded to others. It was one of the songs that didn’t make it onto the album Spook The Herd as it didn’t fit sonically or narratively. It felt like it came from another place. So we began putting together this EP. We wanted to sculpt an intimate “headphones” record. One for the introverts and dreamers, the ones that still find beauty and magic in things. 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Additionally, the album comes with five previously unreleased tracks recorded during the original sessions, details of which can be found in the track-list below. Fusing the most fragile and graceful end of the folk music spectrum to the most luminous properties of cinemascope rock, \u003ci\u003eGracious Tide, Take Me Home\u003c\/i\u003e used a smorgasbord of instruments (guitars, violin, mandolin, piano, synths, glockenspiels, even a kalimba) to paint a variety of beautiful vistas, from the ambient ‘Ships In The Rain’ to the galloping ‘A Kingdom’, from the six-minute layers of ‘The Places We Call Home’ to the skeletal 73-second finale ‘Not Going Back To The Harbour’. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere’s always been a compelling drama to Lanterns On The Lake; the way the opening track ‘Lungs Quicken’ shifts from dreamy restraint to a full-blown crescendo indicated the true power at their fingertips. Lanterns On The Lake formed in 2008 combining a group of friends who had all played in various bands on the local music scene. Hazel Wilde (vocals, guitar), Paul Gregory (guitars, electronics) and Ol Ketteringham (drums, piano) still comprise the core of the band whilst previous members Adam Sykes (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Sykes (bass) departed prior to the second album. Hazel commented at the time that. “A lot of lyrics were inspired by me and Paul moving back to the coast [between Tynemouth and North Shields], where I grew up, after we’d been living near the city centre. They’re also memories of growing up here, the feeling of homesickness, and stories of people around us and of the sea. 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