Sunday, May 18: LAKE

Half Pint Pizza Pub

By Rev. Adam McKinney on May 15, 2014

LAKE had a busy 2013, releasing two full-length albums - The World is Real and Circular Doorway - while continuing their habit of not making too much of a fuss about it. Throughout their seven-year career, LAKE has quietly established itself as one of the best bands in the Pacific Northwest, crafting little lo-fi gems of glowing '70s soft rock-indebted indie rock. Their music is sunny and buoyant without falling into twee territory, and airy without risking the chillwave categorization. Any integration of discord into their waves of pristine harmonies is a welcome one, and helps to integrate texture and movement into what sometimes approaches the overly serene. Sunday finds them joining a free bill with two other solid local indie bands in Humble Cub and Coma Figura. It's not to be missed.

LAKE, w/ Humble Cub, Coma Figura, 6 p.m., Half Pint Pizza Pub, 2710 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, no cover, 253.272.2531