Luke Lalonde The Perpetual Optimist

Luke Lalonde side profile.

All songs written by Luke Lalonde. Album was produced by Luke Lalonde and Chris Sandes. Mastered by Gavin Gardiner at All Day Coconut Studios. All instruments were performed by Luke Lalonde.

This album was recorded from 2016—2019 in various basements, bedrooms, jam spaces and recording studios in Brooklyn NY, Toronto, Burlington, Clarksburg and Midland ON. Without Chris Sandes excouragement and enthusiasm I wouldn’t have been able to finish it. The album was mixed and completed by Chris and myself at Palace Sound in Toronto in the first half of 2019. Thank you Chris.

Thank you Lora, my raincoat. Without you I would be a lone pessimist, forever stuck in a hole.

Additional Instrumentation
Joseph Shabason played saxophone on “Waiting for the Light to Change” and “Dusty Lime.” Doreen Stainton played accordion on “Dusty Lime.”

Chris Sandes Played piano and accordion on “Dusty Lime,” organ on “Two Minutes to Midnight,” and Wurlitzer piano on “Go Somewhere.”

Album Photography
Daniel Neuhaus

Graphic Design
Scott Rankin

Website Development
Nathan Foon

Management
Noah Fralick

Publishing
Warp Publishing