Great Lakes - Diamond Times

Great Lakes’ history goes back to 1990 when Dan and Ben, high school friends, began writing songs together. They soon met a young Jamey Huggins, who joined them in what would become Great Lakes. The three eventually moved to Athens, where they put a band together and began playing live. In 2000 they released their self-titled first LP. Adventurously produced by the band and The Apples In Stereo’s Robert Schneider, it established them as a band as capable of producing epic soundscapes as catchy pop songs. They quickly found fans in the press, as MOJO called Great Lakes’ debut “Very cool”, Uncut praised its “gorgeous stereophonic experiments”, and the Austin Chronicle enthused “Anyone with even the slightest predilection toward the hopelessly romantic notions underlying pure pop music will find plenty to identify with in Great Lakes”. Their second LP, 2002’s ‘The Distance Between’, featured some of their best songs, and Magnet selected it as one of the top 20 overlooked albums of the year, noting the band’s ability to “spew out a fuzz-laced garage assault” and complimenting their “knack for fusing melancholy with feats of ballroom levitation”. This third album, ‘Diamond Times’, has been described by the All Music Guide as “an amazing comeback” and “their best work”, and America’s Exclaim! magazine deemed it “one of the best albums of the last 12 months”.Featuring guest appearances from members of The Essex Green and Of Montreal.

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