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Vinyl LP pressing. 2016 from Lake Street Dive. The four band members-drummer Michael Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, singer Rachael Price, and guitarist/trumpeter Michael InchMcDuckInch Olson-worked with Nashville-based producer Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Secret Sisters) on the record. Side Pony takes it's name from a song on the record that refers to a whimsical hairstyle, but it also serves as a metaphor for Lake Street Dive's philosophy and personality as a band. As Kearney puts it, InchWhen we were settling on the album title, that one just stuck out to us as embodying the band's spirit. We've always been this somewhat impossible to categorize, weird, outlying, genre-less band. That's the statement we wanted to make with this record be yourself.Inch Cobb's working method was to keep the recording fast and loose, as live-in-the-studio as possible, and to embrace the unorthodox. This provided Lake Street Dive with a welcome challenge an opportunity to experiment with sound and arrangements and to collaborate on songwriting in a way the band had never attempted before. Calabrese says of the recording process, InchDave's process was mercurial, changing direction quickly, going from 'we don't have anything' to 'we've got it!'Inch He continues, InchWe weren't always so sure. But then we'd listen to a comp and we'd agree that he'd heard something we hadn't.Inch Price adds, InchIt was great to see, through this particular recording process, how beautifully our individual strengths complement each other.Inch Album Tracks 1. Godawful Things 2. Close to Me 3. Call Off Your Dogs 4. Spectacular Failure 5. I Don't Care About You 6. So Long 7. How Good It Feels 8. Side Pony 9. Hell Yeah 10. Mistakes 11. Can't Stop 12. Saving All My Sinning
