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Life being meaningless without music, Steven decided to build a band

When Kyle Sulyma (of Kyle and Khol Presents – bass) called Lakefield’s first rehearsal, he didn’t ask Steve and Kate to attend – he wrote them into the story from the word “go.” Practice started that week and, two and a half years later, has led to the release of their debut album, “Sounds from the Treeline“.

Bringing together all that they love about Death Cab for Cutie’s songwriting, The Anniversary’s relentless hooks, Stars’ cinematic epics, and the guy/girl vocal harmonies of Mates of State, “Sounds From The Treeline” stands for everything that Lakefield loves about music. Lakefield loves their listeners and fellow artists too; they have released the entire album under an innovative, future-forward, remix-friendly, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

Rewind to 2006; Steven Luscher (guitar, vocals) and Kate Rossiter (keys, vocals), having cut their indie-pop teeth together in Ottawa’s The Suburban Pop Project, moved to Vancouver to start an urban sub project. Winding up, uninvited, at a house party, they stumbled upon a group of Vancouver’s indie-illuminati, among whom they found Blue Grey Dots‘ Bryan Chiu (guitar, vocals). Steven and Bryan would play to some of Vancouver’s sketchiest audiences before Blue Grey Dots disbanded messily that same year.

Life being meaningless without music, Steven decided to build a band back up from the ground up. He bought himself a drum kit, rented a rehearsal space, and received Kyle’s call. Adding high-school classmate Paul Teehan (drums), and rescuing Bryan from the canteen aisle of an army surplus store, Lakefield was born as a five-piece, with occasional bursts of sound from trombonist and friend, Steve Mynett.

Put a lake in a field, and see what happens.