We don’t usually drift too far into the indiepop music scene  mostly because so much of it is  at its core  less folk than otherwise But with the recent departure of original lyricist Dan Donahue  Ways of Escape  the impending new release from NY-by-way-of-Athens band Great Lakes  represents a significant shift in their core sound – something not quite unlike what would happen if Belle and Sebastian had spent too much time listening to a bunch of old Graham Nash records  and then decided to go all-out alt-country without losing their core indiepop sound – and I think there’s something here that folk fans will truly love