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Another One Lost

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when it comes to reviews...i'm more of a voyeur. HOWEVER...after seeing Lake Trout perform at VooDoo Music Festival in New Orleans in Oct 2004...i felt like i had to write a review....1st let me say there were no bands in Baltimore when i attended college there from 88-92....Lake Trout is amazing...and better LIVE....they freakn' rocked New Orleans....as good as the pixies were live....these guys were more impressive....
This album is better than their first...but it kinda depends on what your tastes are....i like pink floyd, radiohead, coldplay, jeff buckley, and genesis when they still had peter gabriel. I think Lake Trout's music is more tangible than Radiohead's (which most feel is a comparable sound). For me, tracks 2 and 6 stand out...
whethe your trying to impress on your young girlfriend what she needs to be listening to instead of that linsey lohan crap...or you're with your older girlfriend and you're sharing some herbal remedies....lake trout is it....and none of that fishy smell left on your fingers..

looking forward to another album....and please play Portland, Maine...sometime....

For fans of Coldplay, Radiohead, DJ Shadow, The Pixies, Mogwai, The Flaming Lips, and Pink Floyd. 'Another One Lost' is by far my favorite record of the year. I first saw the band play live last year in Brooklyn and was absolutely blown away. The power of their music is indescribable. Experiencing a Lake Trout show is [awesome]. 'Another One Lost' is a perfect showcase of their talent and best [money] I spent this year. I wish them luck... we need more bands like Lake Trout these days.

I've been following this band around for the past 3 years and I never grow tired of what they do musically. Another One Lost is their zenith of album releases. Personal album highlights: the fuzzed bass intro of 'Stutter' will blow your hair back, the skittering drum beats of 'Her', the 'We're all afraid' cresendo in 'Holding', the 'You couldn't stop me if you wanted to' outro in 'Bliss', the band's best recorded acoustic number that is the title track, Ed Harris' brilliant arpeggio in 'Last Words', and the final two instrumental tracks that make anything churned out in today's typical modern rock look like a case of jaundice.

This re-release holds an MP3 of a live improvised XM show the band recorded in Washington DC. The 14:52 moment where vocalist Woody Ranere's echoey croon comes atop some whale-cry slide guitar is pure evidence of the dynamic this band contains.

I bought this a while back at one of their shows, but since it's on Amazon, I guess I'll review it. Honestly, it's hard to compare these guys to anyone. I think there's a Radiohead influence, but only in the tone of the music. Woody Ranere's voice is one of the better voices I've heard in rock in quite a while. The music is dark and at times experimental. You can tell these guys are influenced by electronic music (mostly instrumental hip-hop and sample stuff, but a little IDM too). I'd recommend this album for fans of Death In Vegas, Massive Attack, South, Radiohead, Amon Tobin, Mars Volta, Interpol and post 1996 Primal Scream. Anyway, it's good, check it out.

This local Baltimore band deserves more recognition than they are receiving. I have seen this band live twice now, and I have such high regard for them as musicians and as artists. This album is a great work by a truly great young band. Seeing them perform now is what I think it must have been like to see very early Pink Floyd or Radiohead perform. But I'm afraid these guys won't be around much longer. Go see them perform live. Buy this album. It is by far the best album purchase I made in 2003. The lead singer has a hypnotic voice, the drummer is technically suberb, and the guitarist jams.

Dark, ethereal, cerebral are three words that come to mind when describing Lake Trout's music. Their latest album, "Another One Lost" represents yet another leap and bound in the constant musical evolution of Lake Trout. The lyrical content of "Another One Lost" is loosely based a concept that deals with themes of death, fantasty play and the subsequent mental anguish of a coroner who develops an abnormal crush on the girl he is dissecting. Heavy subject matter indeed, but the album doesn't leave the listener feeling dead. "Another One Lost" is influenced by sample-patchwork artists like DJ Shadow and Amon Tobin, and rock artists like Radiohead, Flaming Lips and Nirvana. The layering techniques used by Lake Trout are the evidence. Woody Ranere's vocals are strong and emotive while somehow maintaining an ethereal quality. Mike Lowry's drumming is impeccable and is characterized by almost machine like precision. Ed Harris and Ranere's guitars create layer upon layer of blissful noise, and at times the two show they can still rock out. James Griffith's bass is the driving force that makes the songs flow. Multi-instrumentalist Matthew Pierce's flourishes are what hold the songs together and give them their edge. From the brutal punch of "Stutter", the impressive depth of "Say Something", the acoustic melodies of the title track, the most radio-friendly track, "Last Words" and the dark tone of the experimental instrumental of "Look Who It Is", Lake Trout's latest release lives on the cutting edge of music, constantly innovative and saturated in sensual emotions.

Like most newly minted Lake Trout fans, my introduction to the band happened a few years ago, when i got to see them by chance at the Knitting Factory in NYC. Back then I was amazed at the fusion of musical styles the band played: standup jazz bass mixed with electronica and rock guitar, including the quasi inhuman "drums n' bass" live drumming, which i've never heard a drummer do. In 2005 i had a chance to see the band play twice live at the Bonnaroo festival. I was floored again with the myriad of styles the band can play: switching from Pink Floydian psychodelia to all out noise within one song. These guys are truly an amazing bunch of musicians. "Another One Lost" is truly a great CD filled with awesome songs that will leave any fan of Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Godspeed you Black Emperor wondering how come you've never heard of this amazing band.

Lake Trout has successfully migrated from a drum 'n bass jam band to a forward thinking and sonically diverse collective or artists. I have had the good fortune to see this band a number of times, and each performance somehow built upon the last. This is what contemporary music is supposed to be about. Moving forward, changing with the times, and exploring where your influences take you. Check out this album if you are ready for serious melodic charm, driving electronic-influenced beats, and heartfelt experimentalism. Lake Trout is swimming upstream.

I'd seen Lake Trout a couple of times prior to seeing them at Stockton College in Feb of '04 opening up for The Roots and I have to admit I never really took notice. But that show opened up with the thrumming bass of Stutter and my opinion was almost immediately changed. They played a number of tracks off of Another One Lost that night and the album was a quick purchase. I've always been impressed with the drumming, the composition, the textures, the mix...it's a great album.

2 1/2

The kind of alt-rock which only sounds mildly appealing, masking songwriting shallowness with faux-edgy production and pointed sprinklings of potency.