Painted Wreath, by LAKES

Painted Wreath

by LAKES

supported by

	/

Cassette + Digital Album
Pro-dubbed cassettes (3xCS) with pad-printed shells.
Housed in booklet style casing bounded by a horizontal obi-strip.
Artwork by Sean Bailey.

Edition of 40.

Includes unlimited streaming of Painted Wreath via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

edition of 40

$40 AUD or more
Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$15 AUD or more
Painted Wreath Knitted Scarf
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Knitted scarf designed by Sean Bailey.

Includes unlimited streaming of Painted Wreath via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

1.	Blood Of The Grove 02:14	buy track
2.	The Oldest Place 03:16	buy track
3.	Crossed With Leaves 03:54	buy track
4.	Night Lark 02:45	buy track
5.	Wingless and Earthbound 02:43	buy track
6.	Visitation Dawn 03:49	buy track
7.	All The Waking Dreams 02:43	buy track
8.	The Longest Reign 03:32	buy track
9.	Ashes Black 02:26	buy track
10.	Painted Wreath 03:19	buy track
11.	Carved Remains 03:25	buy track
12.	Triumph of Spring 03:10	buy track
13.	Thrust From The Grey 03:18	buy track
14.	Dragon Current 03:14	buy track
15.	The Rose Window 02:56	buy track
16.	The Great Spiralling World 02:46	buy track
17.	Wield The Edge 03:25	buy track
18.	Vertical Strain 03:41	buy track
19.	Crossed With Leaves 03:59	buy track
20.	Night Lark 03:12	buy track
21.	Carved Remains 03:38	buy track
22.	A Face In The Ash 03:34	buy track
23.	Silver Thorns 03:54	buy track
24.	Frost 03:51	buy track
25.	Flowers By The Graveside 03:48	buy track
26.	Bletsian 03:32	buy track
27.	Chant From Above: Live In Melbourne 31:57	buy track

about

'Sean Bailey’s LAKES are not an easy time. They are not a fun time. For these reasons, they are one of the best examples of Melbourne post-punk: winter music, isolation music, serious music.

From inception, they were the anomaly of the lineup at any Melbourne show by virtue of being serious. There’s nothing essentially good about being serious, a quality that in the wrong hands yields self-important, overwrought drudgery, but fortunately in Sean Bailey’s case it meant that LAKES were presented without compromise or hesitation, and they demanded more of the audience than most bands would dare. LAKES eschewed the ironic distance or narcissistic frippery of most post-punk and took an anti-fascist, peace-punk aesthetic to a neo-folk historically dominated by totalitarian fetishists.

This compilation of LAKES in its most realised and mature incarnation (2012-2017) reveals Bailey’s song writing at its finest. This catalogue of songs has clear antecedents in the apocalyptic folk and martial industrial of Current 93 and Strength Through Joy, but also the anarcho-punk of Crass and The Mob, two sounds reconciled within LAKES, and rarely elsewhere. Sean Bailey took all of this very seriously, and worked in isolation crafting a brilliant discography of songs crafted out of private dreams and nightmares and home recorded in private rituals, or together with collaborators in live performances that bordered on the ceremonial in their intensity and lack of entertaining frippery. Painted Wreath is a heavy trip.' - Daniel Stewart, May 2021. (Total Control, Straightjacket Nation, Mont Icons).

Painted Wreath is the collected recordings of Melbourne act LAKES, spanning years 2012-2017.

Spread over three cassettes, Painted Wreath includes Blood Of The Grove, Chant From Above: Live In Melbourne, Arms In Twilight, Crossed With Leaves, Carved Remains & Silver Thorns.

credits

released June 30, 2021

All songs written and performed by Sean Bailey.
Additional vocals and flute on ‘Dragon Current’ and ‘Silver Thorns’ 12”: Ela Stiles.
Recorder on ‘Night Lark’, ‘All The Waking Dreams’ and ‘Ashes Black’: Yuko Kono.
Lakes Live Personnel: Justin Fuller & Lee Parker.
Recorded by Jack Farley in MElbourne, Australia 2012-2017.
‘Carved remains’ and ‘A Face In The Ash’ recorded by Tom Hardisty, June 2013, Melbourne Australia.

license

about

AR53 Melbourne, Australia

contact / help

Contact AR53

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Painted Wreath, you may also like:

Silver Thorns
by Lakes

supported by 4 fans who also own “Painted Wreath”
go to album
'S/T' EP
by TOL

supported by 4 fans who also own “Painted Wreath”
go to album
A Knife To Send Your Veiled Dreams
by Lakes

supported by 4 fans who also own “Painted Wreath”
go to album
Tunnel
by Benedict Benjamin

The London musician recorded the dreamy psychedelic pop songs on his third album in churches, bedrooms and kitchens. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 15, 2023
go to album
Trash
by Belaver

Belaver’s “Trash” builds from hushed verses to a big, booming crescendo of a chorus, with lyrics that praise finding beauty in darkness. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 14, 2018
go to album
Mind, Man, Medicine
by The Secret Sisters

The Alabama duo's fifth album exults in dusty Americana, showcasing rich vocal harmonies alongside blissful folk instrumentation. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 31, 2024
go to album
RATH S/T EP
by RATH

supported by 4 fans who also own “Painted Wreath”
go to album