Freshly Picked - Loon Lake

23 August 2010 by Jess White

Loon Lake is a Melbourne band consisting of 3 brothers and two mates, who play music because its fun. It’s taken them a while to get this together as they have always been somewhere else and never really in the same city but now they are and have been gigging pretty heavily around Melbourne over the past six months. Loon Lake have garnered quite a bit of support on Triple J through its unearthed program, even winning a chance to perform at Big Sound 2010 in Brisbane.

"I work with Ms. Cheek. She's been banging on about Loon Lake. She blasts them whenever I turn down what I'm listening to. She's relentless with her volume knob. Which is OK. Because now I'm a convert." (Richard Kingsmill, Triple J)

"‘Into The Office’ is one of the first demos released by Loon Lake and it’s super promising. The sounds like a demo, yeah, but I’m really hoping they retain this loose, lo-fi feeling. Even if even every band this side of Eddy Current is trying to record thirty minute albums in twenty minutes, Loon Lake genuinely sound like dudes chilling with guitars in their garage. Doesn’t hurt that the hook in the chorus is a killer as well. In the increasingly crowded Australian garage rock market, these guys manage to stand out without ever sounding like they’re trying." (Matt Hickey, whothehell.net).

The Loon Lake boys will be taking themselves up the east coast with shows at the Spectrum in Sydney on August the 28th and as part of the Big Sound 2010 in Brisbane on the 8th – 10th of September.

Head over to their myspace page for a listen to some of their tunes.

www.myspace.com/weareloonlake

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