Bad Self Portraits is eclectic Boston band Lake Street Dive's third studio album, and the group's sixth release overall.
Produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Erin McKeown), the album comes two years after the group's covers EP, Fun Machine.
Rather than revisit that album's neat gimmick of a jazz-soul band covering contemporary pop songs, Lake Street Dive instead delve into a substantial batch of their own blue-eyed-soul and Southern rock-inflected originals.
Once again, the album showcases lead singer Rachel Price's resonant, old-school singing, which is still the main reason to listen to Lake Street Dive.
Of course, with her band backing her at various times with harmony vocals, jazzy trumpet, crunchy tube guitar riffs, and woody jazz basslines, there's always something rootsy and unexpected happening around her on Bad Self Portraits.
There is a buoyant creativity to many of Lake Street Dive's arrangements, and cuts like "Bobby Tanqueray" and "Seventeen" reveal such time-tested influences as late-'60s Muscle Shoals-influenced soul and Dusty Springfield-esque pop.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad Self PortraitsBridget Kearney | Lake Street Dive | Play | 03:24 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 2 | Stop Your CryingMike Calabrese | Lake Street Dive | Play | 03:34 | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| 3 | Better ThanBridget Kearney | Lake Street Dive | Play | 03:35 | 8 MB | 18 MB |
| 4 | Rabid AnimalBridget Kearney | Lake Street Dive | Play | 02:13 | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| 5 | You Go Down SmoothMike "McDuck" Olson | Lake Street Dive | Play | 03:29 | 8 MB | 24 MB |
| 6 | Use Me UpMike "McDuck" Olson | Lake Street Dive | Play | 03:57 | 9 MB | 24 MB |
| 7 | Bobby TanquerayMike Calabrese | Lake Street Dive | Play | 03:32 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 8 | Just AskMike "McDuck" Olson | Lake Street Dive | Play | 05:05 | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| 9 | SeventeenBridget Kearney | Lake Street Dive | Play | 03:39 | 8 MB | 24 MB |
| 10 | What About MeMike Calabrese | Lake Street Dive | Play | 04:17 | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| 11 | Rental LoveBridget Kearney | Lake Street Dive | Play | 02:37 | 6 MB | 16 MB |
| 39 mins | 90 MB | |||||
| 39 mins | 257 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gudrun Guillo | Executive Producer |
| 2 | Robert Guillo | Executive Producer |
| 3 | Erik Hischmann | Assistant |
| 4 | Sam Kassirer | Mixing, Organ, Piano, Producer |
| 5 | Bridget Kearney | Bass, Composer, Piano, Vocals |
| 6 | Lake Street Dive | Primary Artist |
| 7 | Jeff Lipton | Mastering |
| 8 | Jarrod McCabe | Photography |
| 9 | Mike Calabrese | Composer, Drums, Percussion, Vocals |
| 10 | Mike "McDuck" Olson | Composer, Guitar, Piano, Trombone, Trumpet, Vocals |
| 11 | Philip Price | Graphic Design |
| 12 | Rachel Price | Vocals |
| 13 | Maria Rice | Assistant Mastering Engineer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |