5 New Acts to see at 2000trees 2023


The booking team at 2000trees are renowned for having their fingers on the pulse of the greatest in new and underground music… Whether it’s an act that climbs to stratospheric heights like Wolf Alice, a band that builds a cult audience and pushes the boundaries of their sound (e.g. Black Peaks) or an artist you…

Lakes – ‘Start Again’ album review


Lakes’ debut album ‘The Constance LP’ was inspired after American Football’s 2016 ‘LP2’ inspired drummer/guitarist Matt Shaw to start writing music again. Within the space of month, he had the songs that made up 2018’s ‘The Tahoe EP’ and 2019’s ‘The Geneva EP’ and the basis of the full-length. Now – after various lockdowns disrupted…

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Lakes – ‘Start Again’


Watford six-piece Lakes have shared the title track of their forthcoming album ‘Start Again’ (out on 30 July via Big Scary Monsters in the UK and Know Hope Records in the US). Produced and mixed by Neil Strauch (Owen, Owls, Joan of Arc), the album tackles themes of anxiety, depression, addiction and toxicity. ‘Start Again’,…