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LaSalle - Expedition Songs

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RIYL

Karate
Jawbreaker
Hot Water Music
Iron and Wine

Tracklist

A Prescription For His Social Life
Oasis In The Sun
Move, Stop, Repeat
Flip Flops & White Suits
Hurt For Long
Other Side Of The Night
Little Kicks
Vanishing Point
Kissinger
The Ancient Mariner Of 1989
Don’t Call

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Who would have seen it coming? A three-piece band formed from the ashes of other moderately well known bands creates the best album you’ve never heard. Expedition Songs released October 25th on Thick Records deserves more credit for creating a strong album when fans expectations exceeded anything capable of recreation. This album isn’t a sequel to River Bed or Begging Complication. Enough with why you don’t think this album could be as hard as Dead Reckoning. Charlevoix and Small Brown Bike fans - leave all your misconceptions about LaSalle right here. Expedition Songs is new, original and everything you didn’t want from either of those bands.

The urgency to write music that wasn’t based on expectation is ridiculously evident in every song on this album. But, don’t get me wrong. This isn’t an album that “turns left” just when you expect it to “turn right”. LaSalle didn’t write an album to simply abuse the old fans of their previous bands. They wrote an album that finally fits their personality, style, and passion. It’s so commendable and rare to hear artists not change with the times. These three have been playing music together for years and while their technique becomes more refined, their lyrical honesty stays the same. Mike and Katy Reed write each song like a journal entry. Who cares where the chorus or bridge is expected to come in? With such strong backing in Dan Jaquint, LaSalle have one of the greatest drummers of our generation backing a duo that writes circles around their contemporaries. Admit you like the Postal Service and rejoice that you miss Jawbreaker and you’ll find somewhere in the middle that LaSalle is everything you’ve waited for in modern music.

--Kazy Brown