The fourth record from the Watford sextet, Slow Fade follows a string of records that saw the band borrowing motifs from other genres to brush into their emo orientated sound. Yes, whilst those aforementioned records absolutely continued elements of such genres in their sound both musically and thematically, to dully slap genre tags on them and be done with it would be a disservice to Lakes’ approach. Rather, the sound of this band as a whole is something of a beautiful hand-painted composition. Such musical dollops of paint are not the defining feature of Lakes‘ musical canvas, but rather smaller parts of a greater whole. The musical dashings of a brush that help bring to life something far more greater. Slow Fade is makes such a sentiment inarguable…