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After a 4-year hiatus, ElectricUTOPIA band Lake South return with their best yet, the soaring epic 'We lived our lives on top of this'.
Their fourth album was written in the pockets of free time in the 3 years since the birth of Lake's first child. Immense joy, white nights, the mourning of a life lived lonely, and the delicate embrace of a love without limit.
LAKE SOUTH
Lake South takes the best of the Aotearoa New Zealand songwriting tradition and infuses it with raw emotion and electronics. Defiant, DIY, indie anthems for people who give a damn.
These are the kind of songs that make you want to run down an empty street at dusk, screaming your heart out for a better future. As the band makes their way across the motu, prepare for a live show that hits deep.
The band has released 3 critically acclaimed albums, with Graham Reid calling Lake an 'electro-folk postcard poet of his doubting generation'.
The current line-up features Theo Sekeris (Ras Judah, Rubita) on bass, Eddie Crawshaw (Sheep Dog & Wolf, Bonaparte) on drums, and Penelope Esplin (French for Rabbits, Eigenface) on harmonies and synths.
KEIRA WALLACE
Ōtepoti-based Keira Wallace's cocooning vocals and intricate chord voicings weave folk and lo-fi indie influences to form sounds that radiate a lasting warmth.
Their music has been described as having "the depth of a true folk artist with the lightness of youth that combines into a heady experience during their live performance."
With two folk duos and a shoegaze band in the works, their solo performance remains a constant documentation throughout growth, complexity, and reflection.
FRANCISCA GRIFFIN
Francisca Griffin is perhaps best known for her bass playing, with a little guitar and vocals thrown in with pivotal Flying Nun band Look Blue Go Purple, which formed in 1983 and released 3 EPs (and were awarded the Taite Prize: IMNZ Classic Record in April 2024!)
Francisca went on to play in Cyclops (2 singles and a CD album), and released her first solo work Some From the Sky on CD in 1998.
Since 2012 Francisca has been playing live, and honing her unique sound. She now plays both solo, and with her band, the Bus Shelter Boys aka Gabriel Griffin (Sewage, Cuck, OHM), Mick Elborado (Terminals, Negative Nancies, Ca$h Guitar) and new addition Ro Rushton-Green (Sewage)
‘the spaces between’ was released on vinyl and CD through CocoMuse Releases in January 2019.
In August 21 they recorded a live set - Francisca Griffin & the Bus Shelter Boys Live at The Crown Hotel which was released by Ōtepōti label trace-untrace on cassette September 2022.
Francisca and her band are currently working on a new album with Tom Bell of Seaward Sounds. She is also in the initial stages of releasing solo live recordings.
