LAKE is a band that originated in Olympia, WA back in the summer of 2006. Eli, Lindsay, and Ashley played a show for Eli's birthday party. But that was before they had a name. The name happened soon after, with additional member, Kenny. Over the next year, Kenny would leave Olympia, and Andrew, Adam and Mark would join the band.
LAKE recorded their first album, "Lake", with Karl Blau in Anacortes at the Department of Safety. This album is striving to keep the energy of "first takes".
The next album was recorded at two different houses where band members were living in Olympia: the Puget House, and at Calliope, where Lindsay was living at the time. Many recordings feature members of the band "Typhoon" from Portland, OR, and are, in essence, first takes. The LAKE "cassette" was released on tape only, for the first year, and then Funkytonk Records offered to put the album out on vinyl with two added tracks from the same sessions that hadn't made it onto the tape release.
That fall, LAKE toured for the first time opening up for Adrian Orange, and also playing as "Her Band" on that tour. This tour was two months long. LAKE has yet to tour as long as that first time out. "We were young, then!"
Many of the songs recorded for the "cassette" were intended to be recorded with Tucker Martine in Seattle, but were postponed due to his move to Portland. As soon as he was prepared to record us again, we started, and recorded on and off for the next two years. Many of the songs are songs that were on the LAKE "cassette". Health and tours and many things prevented this album from being completed in the normal 3-5 month time span, and while the band was in the second year of working on the album and not sure of an end in sight, LAKE decided to record another album at home, on Whidbey Island, and in Olympia, at the Bethel House (and let's not forget Heather Treadway's house in Portland!) This album is called Oh, the Places We'll Go, the title being a nod to Dr. Suess's book, Oh, the Places You'll Go.
The album with Tucker Martine was eventually finished, and instead of being put out as an album, is currently being released one or two songs at a time as singles on 7".
LAKE toured Oh, the Places in Europe, and while on tour, received the good news that K records wanted to put out the album. This is why there are two different versions of this release: LAKE's original self-release, and then the K records release.
K records has been a home to LAKE and their album releases ever since. After Oh, the Places, came Let's Build A Roof and now Giving & Receiving.