Great Lakes - Dreaming Too Close To The Edge (2018)

"These ten originals show why fans continue to follow and support Great Lakes. Crum writes songs delivered with unique sincerity." - babysue

"Dreaming Too Close to the Edge is Crum and his cohorts at their finest." - Dagger

"Crum is an immensely gifted singer/songwriter, whose heartfelt, earthy songs are pristine gems of smart, gritty rock n’ roll." - Jersey Beat

"Classic noisy indie rock." - Backseat Mafia

"Deceptively pretty songs about nasty things." - Here Comes the Flood

"The more intimate and dark the songs get the better they work." - Soundblab

"Gorgeous and deceiving." - Brightest Young Things

Great Lakes emerged from Athens, GA roughly two decades ago, but the band led by singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ben Crum has been based in Brooklyn since 2002. Formed in 1996, Great Lakes was initially part of the Elephant 6 Collective. The band's 2000 debut, mixed by Apples in Stereo honcho Robert Schneider, owed much to the psychedelic pop of the '60s, as did the band's second album, The Distance Between. 2006's Diamond Times for Empyrean Records, however, offered a significant stylistic progression. Drifting away from the psychedelic milieu, the band's sound took on country and folk leanings, with Farther reminiscent of both Wilco's and Teenage Fanclub's more straight-ahead moments. By 2008 Crum had become the sole original member of Great Lakes, and the band's fourth album, Ways of Escape, reflected a further shift into singer-songwriter-oriented country and folk. It also brought with it a change in personnel, as Crum was joined by drummer Kevin Shea, vocalist Suzanne Nienaber, keyboardist Joe McGinty, guitarist Kenny Wachtel, bassist David Lerner, multi-instrumentalist David Gould, and pedal steel player Phil Sterk. This same lineup returned for the band's 5th album, 2016's Wild Vision, which delivered what many reviewers called a creative peak for Crum and Great Lakes. With the band's 6th album, Dreaming Too Close to the Edge, Crum, Shea, Nienaber, McGinty, Sterk, Gould and Wachtel return with a record that feels both like a natural progression from Ways of Escape and Wild Vision and hearkens back a bit to the band's earlier work.

Track List:
01. End Of An Error
02. Bury The Hatchet
03. Time Served
04. Minor Blues
05. To Live Is To Lose
06. Kingdom Came
07. Mixed Blood
08. Gold
09. Awaking Up Together
10. You Could Have Had Me For A Song

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