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Gone swimming: Into the Lake presents “The Pre-Flight EP”

Music | July 24th, 2014

Over the river and through the woods, Into The Lake we go.

Indeed, within a matter of months, this “lake band” has recorded a 5-track EP, “The Pre-Flight,” released two of the EP’s singles and gained more than 400 fans on Facebook without having performed a single live show. The full EP will be released digitally, through Spotify, iTunes, BandCamp, Amazon and Google, this July 29. And the band will perform live for the first time this July 24 at The Aquarium.

Into The Lake (consisting of singer/guitarist Robert Biglow, bassist Lucas Rutten, drummer Christopher Iverson and guitarist Michael Carter) is an indie rock band with an electro-acoustic sensibility. Biglow’s delicate and hip yet adorable voice complements the bands atmospheric textures and power-packed rhythmic phrasings.

“I feel like our sound packs a punch in a room but it is also laid back at the same time,” said Biglow, a St. Paul native.

The band’s sound is a result of mixing two hardcore-rock musicians with two folk and indie pop music lovers.

“The melodies and the vocals are very nice and mellow, but the rhythms and everything else are very aggressive,” Iverson said. “The (time signatures) are not regular 4/4 or 2/4.”

The EP is a student-made project recorded at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where Rutten, Biglow and Iverson attend school. Carter, on the other hand, just graduated from M-State with a degree in graphic design and is responsible for the band’s artwork.

While a number of local bands perform dozens of shows before they ever see a studio, Into The Lake took the opposite approach, to begin with at least. Its songs have been developed through the recording process.

“Until this point we’ve been a studio band instead of a live band, which is why we might have snuck up on people,” said Rutten, a music industry major.   “Chris can write a drum part for something that Rob tabbed out the night before, he can send it to Guitar Pro (a notation software) and I can write bass on it and send it back.”

Lyrically, The EP was an inspired by an out-of-body experience Iverson had a few years ago.

“I didn’t really believe in the whole astral projection thing 100 percent until I had my own out of body experience,” Iverson said. “It was really an eye opening experience knowing that there’s obviously something besides what we see right here and now, besides the physical.

The resulting product, “The Pre-Flight EP,” is quite impressive. Listeners will appreciate its sensible artistic energy and alternative sound, its appealing instrumentation and its tender vocal lines.

“We just want to get our music out there at this point,” Rutten said. “We are not exactly fussing about every tiny detail. We just want people to hear our music.”

IF YOU GO:

Into the Lake
Sat, July 24, 9 p.m. (doors @ 8:30)
The Aquarium, 226 Broadway
facebook.com/intothelake

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