Austinites, assemble! A cute indie band needs your help gettin’ you more of that sweet, jangly music you crave. Local act Grey Lakes has finished the big majority of a record they’re hoping to release this year, but they need a little help along the way to finish up those persnickety and expensive things that come with record-creating like mastering. They’re running an indiegogo page right now to raise the funds (as of this writing it looks like they need about $4k in 9 days), and they’ve released a couple of singles to show you lovely potential listeners what they can do for ya.
The two tracks released so far, "Sea Foam Green" and "Our Blood" are nice little pretty-ass indiepop gems that deal with classic pop concepts, but bring them out in ways that feel refined as opposed to tired. There’s much twangly, floating guitar here and breathy vocals that feel like they hearken back to when indie was more rock-pop and didn’t have as much of the folky influence goin’ on yet. "Sea Foam Green" is especially heavy on the indie-pop side, and the band does very well with the components of this genre to layer them just so in the track so that it culminates in a droney, well-balanced and pleasing way with all layers present.
Puttin’ out a record is a tough thing, and really most musicians outside of the biggest acts put a ton more into these financially and in terms of hours worked than they actually get back out of it, and you can help make it happen and also get yourself a nice bit of music to listen to by headin’ over to the page and droppin’ a dollar or two of beer money. Check out the tracks below, and help these guys out if you feel so inclined. The scene needs you to live, remember that kiddos.