Lake South takes the best of the Aotearoa New Zealand songwriting tradition and infuses it with raw emotion and electronics. Defiant, DIY, indie anthems for people who give a damn.

These are the kind of songs that make you want to run down an empty street at dusk, screaming your heart out for a better future.

The band has released 4 critically acclaimed albums, with Graham Reid calling Lake an ‘electro-folk postcard poet of his doubting generation’.

Reviews:

“a titanic talent.” — The Revue.ca

“It’s a ripper!” — Grant Smithies

“Earnest and acutely observed nostalgia turns into uplifting anthems time and again” — Alex Behan (Sunday Star Times)

“gorgeous pop gems…deft, heartfelt, funny.” — NZ Musician Magazine

“Recommended for both the misunderstood thinkers searching for meaning as they traverse this new world, and the shallow casuals looking to avoid it. Five out of five.” — music.net.nz

“Complex, interesting, prematurely nostalgic . . . yet capturing the zeitgeist for his generation” — Elsewhere Music blog

“smart lyrics, tasteful synth and a distinct New Zealand accent” — The Wild Honey Pie

“Nostalgic, elegiac synth-pop meditations on what it means to be a 20/30-something in modern Aotearoa.” — National Library of NZ