Blog: SoundsXP

Great Lakes Great Lakes return in 2010! Ways of Escape (release date: October 12) is the first of their records to feature Ben Crum as the primary songwriter. With its frank and personal folk- and country-influenced songs, the record has a bare emotional style that's far from the innocent optimism and lighthearted psychedelia of the band's first two records. Adorned with gentle guitar, stately piano, beautiful pedal steel, soulful organ and subtle yet powerful [...]