Lanterns on the Lake

Lanterns on the Lake formed in 2007 and was founded by core members Wilde & Gregory, and former member Oliver Ketteringham.

They self-released two EPs and a single before signing to the Bella Union record label in December 2010.{{cite web |last=Mews |first=Thomas |url=http://www.thefourohfive.com/news/article/lanterns-on-the-lake-sign-to-bella-union |title=Lanterns On The Lake // Sign to Bella Union |website=Thefourohfive.com |date=10 December 2010 |accessdate=2016-02-01 |archive-date=30 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430005106/http://thefourohfive.com/news/article/lanterns-on-the-lake-sign-to-bella-union |url-status=dead }}

The band played a host of music festivals including End of the Road Festival, Glastonbury Festival,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2010/artists/lanternsonthelake/ |title=Glastonbury Festival – Lanterns on the Lake |publisher=BBC |date= |accessdate=2016-02-01}} SXSW, and Bestival.

The band released their debut album Gracious Tide, Take Me Home on 19 September 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.bellaunion.com/index.php/site/news/gracious_tide_take_me_home_released_today |title=Archived copy |website=www.bellaunion.com |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002221356/http://www.bellaunion.com/index.php/site/news/gracious_tide_take_me_home_released_today |archive-date=2 October 2011 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last=Edwards |first=David |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16502/reviews/4143571 |title=Album Review: Lanterns on the Lake – Gracious Tide, Take Me Home / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound |website=Drownedinsound.com |date=15 September 2011 |accessdate=2016-02-01 |archive-date=26 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926091420/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16502/reviews/4143571 |url-status=dead }} The album was recorded by the band in their homes and produced by the band's guitarist Paul Gregory. The album received mainly positive reviews and received a metacritic rating of 74.{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/gracious-tide-take-me-home/lanterns-on-the-lake |title=Reviews for Gracious Tide, Take Me Home by Lanterns on the Lake |website=Metacritic.com |date= |accessdate=2016-02-01}}

During this period Lanterns on the Lake supported Explosions in the Sky on their UK tour including the O2 Academy, Brixton.{{cite web |url=http://www.o2academybrixton.co.uk/event/29345/explosions-in-the-sky-tickets |title=Upcoming Events |publisher=O2 Academy Brixton |date= |accessdate=2016-02-01 |archive-date=6 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106180402/http://www.o2academybrixton.co.uk/event/29345/explosions-in-the-sky-tickets |url-status=dead }} The band has also toured with Low, including a performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London{{cite web|url=http://www.atpfestival.com/newsview/1201301030.php |title=Lanterns On The Lake to support Low in London – All Tomorrow's Parties |website=Atpfestival.com |date=30 January 2012 |accessdate=2016-02-01}} and with Yann Tiersen, including a performance at The Roundhouse.{{cite web|url=http://www.clashmusic.com/news/lanterns-on-the-lake-november-tour |title=Lanterns On The Lake November Tour | News | Clash Magazine |website=Clashmusic.com |date=21 October 2015 |accessdate=2016-02-01}}

The band's follow-up album Until the Colours Run was released on 7 October 2013 in UK and Europe.{{cite web|url=http://bellaunion.com/2013/06/lanterns-on-the-lake-announce-second-album-until-the-colours-run/ |title=Lanterns On The Lake announce second album: Until The Colours Run |publisher=Bella Union |date=13 June 2013 |accessdate=2016-02-01}} The album received positive reviews, receiving a metacritic rating of 84{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/until-the-colours-run/lanterns-on-the-lake |title=Reviews for Until the Colours Run by Lanterns on the Lake |website=Metacritic.com |date= |accessdate=2016-02-01}} with many reviewers noting its socio-political undertones.{{cite web|url=http://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/review-lanterns-on-the-lake-until-the-colours-run/ |title=Review | Lanterns On The Lake ~ Until The Colours Run |website=GoldFlakePaint.co.uk |date= 23 September 2013|accessdate=2016-02-01}} Drowned in Sound declared it "one of the best records of the young decade".{{cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Aidan |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17881/reviews/4146954 |title=Album Review: Lanterns on the Lake – Until the Colours Run / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound |website=Drownedinsound.com |date=4 October 2013 |accessdate=2016-02-01 |archive-date=18 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218103312/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17881/reviews/4146954 |url-status=dead }}

The group extensively toured Europe, and in early 2014 they embarked on their first tour of the US.{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicsnobbery.com/2013/11/lanterns-on-the-lake-plotting-first-north-american-tour-second-album-entitled-until-the-colours-run.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407053211/http://www.musicsnobbery.com/2013/11/lanterns-on-the-lake-plotting-first-north-american-tour-second-album-entitled-until-the-colours-run.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 April 2014|title=Lanterns on the Lake Plotting First North American Tour; Second Album Entitled, Until The Colours Run – Music Snobbery|date=7 April 2014|accessdate=2020-04-12}}

On 13 November 2015 the group released their third album Beings worldwide.{{cite web|url=http://bellaunion.com/2015/08/lanterns-on-the-lake-announce-third-album-beings-to-be-released-13th-november-2015/ |title=Lanterns On The Lake announce third album 'Beings' to be released 13th November 2015 |publisher=Bella Union |date= |accessdate=2016-02-01}} Beings was met with critical acclaim{{Cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/beings/lanterns-on-the-lake |title = Beings by Lanterns on the Lake|website=Metacritic.com|accessdate=2020-04-12}} with Drowned in Sound declaring Lanterns on the Lake as "One of Britain's most crucial bands of the present moment."{{Cite web|url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/19117/reviews/4149587|title=Album Review: Lanterns on the Lake – Beings|website=Drownedinsound.com|accessdate=2020-04-12|archive-date=28 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151128090051/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/19117/reviews/4149587|url-status=dead}} and DIY Magazine describing the group as "virtually without equal".{{Cite web | url=http://diymag.com/2015/11/13/lanterns-on-the-lake-beings |title = Lanterns on the Lake – Beings|website=Diymag.com| date=13 November 2015 |accessdate=2020-04-12}}

Following the release of Beings, Lanterns on the Lake toured Europe and the UK extensively and at this time performed their largest hometown concert to date where they were accompanied by Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead in Hall One,{{Cite web | url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/lanterns-lake-royal-northern-sinfonia-10853648 |title = Royal Northern Sinfonia and Lanterns on the Lake. Talk about a synergy in sound|date = 7 February 2016|website=MChroniclelive.co.uk|accessdate=2020-04-12}} the orchestral arrangements composed by Fiona Brice.{{Cite web|url=https://bellaunion.com/2016/11/lanterns-on-the-lake-announce-live-album/|title=Lanterns On The Lake Announce Live Album | Bella Union|website=Bellaunion.com|accessdate=2020-04-12}}

The show was recorded and subsequently released as a live album in November 2017 – Live with Royal Northern Sinfonia.{{Cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/Lanterns-On-The-Lake-Live-With-Royal-Northern-Sinfonia/release/11190728 |title = Lanterns on the Lake – Live with Royal Northern Sinfonia|website=Discogs.com| date=24 November 2017 |accessdate=2020-04-12}} Wilde commented that the live album "feels to be retrospectively like a line that we were drawing under what had come before for our band. We’d done three albums, had some ups and downs, had band members quit. There’d been a lot of difficulties for us over the years and yet we’d persevered because we still believed in it. So by the time we’d finished touring the third album Beings we were actually in a really good place...Then there we were...in our hometown and so many people there to see us including people who had been following our band since the start and been on the journey with us...It kind of felt like a celebration of all the music we’d made in the past and a bit of a release for us personally because all that perseverance had in some ways paid off – at least in the sense that we were still going and we were able to be there, then, in that moment. So looking back now it feels to me like a closing of a chapter for us."{{cite web|url=https://www.eventhestars.co.uk/2020/02/lanterns-on-lake-interview.html|title=Lanterns on the Lake – Interview}} '

Following touring throughout 2016 the band took a break. In an interview Wilde commented "I don’t think we ever said it would be the absolute end.. (But) I don’t think people would have blamed us for throwing in the towel at that point – we’d had a good run at it.. that would have been a good place to call it a day but we felt there was probably more we had to offer and further to go creatively, we just weren’t sure what or where that would be. And, if I’m honest, I was personally just a bit tired at that point."

It was during this break that Wilde began writing many of the songs that would go on to make up Spook the Herd. The band developed the songs over the course of a year before recording at Distant City studios in Yorkshire. This was the first time the group had gone into a studio to record. Wilde has commented that "We are a pretty insular band in how we work, and trusting other people enough to allow them to get involved is not always easy for us."The album was produced by the band and mixed by the band's guitarist Paul Gregory.{{cite web|url=https://bellaunion.com/2019/11/lanterns-on-the-lake-announce-spook-the-herd/|title=Lanterns on the Lake announce 'Spook the Herd' | Bella Union}}

The album was released in February 2020 and received positive reviews with MusicOMH describing it as "a masterpiece".{{cite web|last=Horton|first=Ross|date=19 February 2020|title=Lanterns on the Lake – Spook the Herd|url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/lanterns-on-the-lake-spook-the-herd}} The album was noted for reflecting on issues including polarized politics, social media, addiction, grief and the climate crisis. The album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in 2020.

In June 2023, Lanterns on the Lake released their fifth album, Versions of Us. Following the departure of the drummer, Ol Ketteringham, they recruited Radiohead drummer, Philip Selway, to perform drums and percussion. According to Wilde, Selway helped them create a "whole other version" of the album and restored their confidence in the songs.{{Cite web |last=Geiger |first=Amy |date=27 February 2023 |title=Lanterns on the Lake recruit Radiohead drummer Philip Selway for new LP |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/lanterns-on-the-lake-recruit-radiohead-drummer-philip-selway-for-new-lp-stream-a-track/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=Brooklyn Vegan |language=en}} Versions of Us received acclaim, with a Metacritic score of 82.{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/versions-of-us/lanterns-on-the-lake |website=Metacritic |title=Versions of Us by Lanterns on the Lake }}

The song "I Love You Sleepyhead" was used in the film Where Soldiers Come From.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/pov/wheresoldierscomefrom/credits.php |accessdate=1 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130804090357/http://www.pbs.org/pov/wheresoldierscomefrom/credits.php |archivedate=4 August 2013 |title=Credits | Where Soldiers Come from | POV |website=PBS |date=11 January 2011 }}

The song "Through the Cellar Door" has been taken for the soundtrack of the Square Enix game Life Is Strange: Before the Storm.

The group composed the music for all BT Sport's Champions League coverage beginning August 2020.

The group provided the theme song "Don't Have Nightmares" written especially for the hit BBC podcast series Uncanny, presented by Danny Robins.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/oct/20/the-week-in-audio-uncanny-just-one-thing-built-to-thrive-and-more|title = The week in audio: Uncanny; Just One Thing; Built to Thrive and more|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 20 October 2021}} In 2023 BBC2 aired the first 3 episodes of the Uncanny television series which also featured the group's theme song.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001rcl0/uncanny |website=BBC |title=Uncanny }}

• Hazel Wilde – vocals, guitar, piano, lyricist (2007–present)
• Paul Gregory – guitar, producer (2007–present)
• Bob Allan – bass (2014–present)
• Angela Chan – violin, cello, viola (2014–present)

• Philip Selway – drums, percussion (2022–present)
• Sarah Kemp – violin (2008–2014)
• Oliver Ketteringham – drums, piano (2007–2022)
• Andrew Scrogham – bass (2012–2014)
• Brendan Sykes – bass (2008–2012)
• Adam Ian Sykes – vocals, guitar, piano (2008–2012)

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• Gracious Tide, Take Me Home (September 2011){{AllMusic |class=album |id=r2235321 |tab=review |label=Album review – Lanterns on the Lake: Gracious Tide, Take Me Home |first=Jon |last=O'Brien |accessdate=17 April 2012}}
• Until the Colours Run (October 2013)
• Beings (November 2015)
• Spook the Herd (February 2020)
• Versions of Us (2 June 2023)

• Live in Concert Lanterns on the Lake with Royal Northern Sinfonia – (Recorded live at Sage Gateshead in February 2016) (November 2017)

• The Starlight EP (August 2008)
• Misfortunes and Minor Victories (May 2009)
• Bonus EP (Rough Trade exclusive released with Gracious Tide, Take Me Home) (2011)
• Low Tide (Remix EP, April 2012)
• The Realist (December 2020)

• "Lungs Quicken" (2010)
• "Keep on Trying" (2011)
• "Another Tale from Another English Town" (2013)
• "Until the Colours Run" (2013)
• "The Buffalo Days" (2013)
• "Faultlines" (2015)
• "Through the Cellar Door" (2016)
• "The Crawl" (2016)
• "Every Atom" (2020)
• "Baddies" (2020)
• "The Likes of Us" (February 2023)

• The band recorded a cover of The Beatles' "Long, Long, Long" for Mojo magazine's 2011 album ''Harrison Covered: A Tribute to George Harrison.{{cite web|url=http://madmackerel.org/2011/09/24/mojos-george-harrison-tribute/|website=madmackerel.org|title=Mojo's George Harrison Tribute|date=24 September 2011|access-date=23 March 2025}}
• The track "Ships in the Rain" features on Rough Trade's 2012 album Counter Culture 11.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rough-trade-shops-counter-culture-11-mw0002263118|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004064222/http://www.allmusic.com/album/rough-trade-shops-counter-culture-11-mw0002263118|archive-date=4 October 2017|work=AllMusic|title=Various Artists {{!}} Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture 11}}
• The band have provided remixes for artists such as Radiohead's Phil Selway.{{CN|date=March 2025}}

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• [http://www.lanternsonthelake.com Official website]

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