Like the stupidly under-valued Conway Story, AT THE LAKE are one of those fringe-plying contenders lurching around the capital and quietly wowing select gatherings right now.
Their previous single “These Days” tickled this writer’s fancy before Christmas last and now they’re doing it again with the equally persuasive “I Made My Excuses And Left”. OK, they do flirt with the yearning, stadium-filling angst of the Coldplay clones (mostly due to the inevitable falsetto-y inflections in singer Matt Forder’s delivery), but with its’ weirdo false start, tingly chromatic guitar figures and an urgency more akin to The Sound/ Chameleons’ lineage than simply the Chris Martin/ Snow Patrol-style pretenders, “I Made My Excuses…” barely puts a foot wrong.
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The positive impression is confirmed by ‘exclusive’ flipside “Wrong” where a few discreet loops get in on the act and an almost dublike undertow grapples headily with the guitar invective and the way the whole thing comes in a rush is really most attractive. Give me a day out At The Lake over dorks like The Departure any day of the week.
(www.myspace.com/atthelake)
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