“I grew up around so many different types of music, it didn’t make sense for my own art to feel so boxed in.”
Ricky Lake
Hyped up like an EDM climax from the very first second, Altered is a new pop punk-meets-hip hop full-length from Ricky Lake on Text Me Records. A completely San Francisco family affair (with a little evening swing through Lake Merritt on “Davonte”), the new album represents an important step in the artist’s journey, saying goodbye to boundaries and exploring the blending of multiple genres. Sometimes it sounds like big music festival trap music, sometimes it sounds like chillwave Toro y Moi, and it almost always sounds as emo as adolescent years spent cruising around the Bay in a buddy’s vintage Volvo. Is it summertime yet?
