Lake Trout
Lake Trout's sound, mixing elements of myriad contemporary styles, developed around a harder-edged progressive indie rock attack.
Formed while band members were attending music school in Baltimore, Maryland in the mid-1990’s, the quintet featured Woody Ranere on vocals and guitar; Ed Harris on guitar; Mike Lowry on drums; James Griffith on bass and Matt Pierce on keyboards, flute, and vocals.
What separated Lake Trout from other jam bands was their commitment to repetitive minimalism. Lake Trout were able to build pieces of music slowly and thoughtfully. This was thanks to a strange combination of the fast and propulsive breakbeat drumming of Lowry and the patient pattern playing of Harris.
By early 2001, the group was beginning to integrate more traditionally rock & roll influences (as were many of their contemporaries). By mid-2002, they produced the album ‘Another One Lost’ — a record of dark, Radiohead-like mood exploration. In 2005 the band issued the album ‘Not Them, You’ on Palm Pictures.
