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Lounge FM who formed in 2016 in Winnipeg, Canada, are on the rise in the indie music scene after releasing their latest album, “Love Will Let You Down” in the spring on Spotify and Bandcamp. To date, the band has 11,457 monthly listeners on Spotify, and their most popular song “Play Nice” has just over 82,000 plays. The five-piece band consists of lead singer and guitarist Corey Wohlgemuth, bassist Joel Braun, drummer Adam Pauls, guitarist Matt Klippensein and keyboard player Will Neufeld. Band members Wohlgetmuth, Braun and Pauls talked about their music and how they create jazzy tunes for “Friday night bath music.” “[Friday night bath music] is the excitement of a Friday night but the calmness of a bath,” Wohlgemuth said. “Like, a Monday bath is boring, but a Friday bath becomes more exciting.” Lounge FM’s sound is inspired by the band’s musical influences, including jazz, hip-hop and indie artists such as Mac Demarco, Homeshake and Mild High Club. Despite the hip-hop influences, the band considers themselves to be a “chilled-out jazz rock-band,” Pauls said. “it’s psychedelic jazz-pop but really lounge-y, with a little hint of R&B stuff,” Brauns said. “We all have similar bands that draw us together, but we each have our own thing. So [our influences] goes from Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat and Erykah Badu and then to Radiohead, of Montreal and more psychedelic rocks bands.” The band members grew up in the small town of Niverville, south of Winnipeg in Canada. They had be