Dave Lebental Enters the Art Rock Ranking with Changing the Way I Feel, Built Alone in an LA Home Studio
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Dave Lebental Enters the Art Rock Ranking with Changing the Way I Feel, Built Alone in an LA Home Studio
A Five-Minute Song About the Power of Songs, Credited to Dave Lebental and Karma Train
Two figures frame Changing the Way I Feel. Dave Lebental has about 2,800 monthly listeners on Spotify. Karma Train, the band credited alongside Lebental on the single, has about 2,400. The song came out on 4 July 2025. The single from Dave Lebental enters this desk’s art rock ranking for one reason. A single songwriter recorded nearly every part of it at home in Los Angeles.
Dave Lebental’s Changing the Way I Feel sits in the rock playlist below. The Dave Lebental artist profile collects the songwriter’s full run of coverage. Changing the Way I Feel reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play on the single, then keep reading to see who it suits.
Three Natural Audiences for an Art Rock Single by Dave Lebental, From Pop Fans to Home Producers
1. Listeners Raised on Piano-Led Seventies Pop
The widest audience for this art rock single from Dave Lebental starts at the piano. Lebental wrote the song on piano, then built the track up around it. The structure has several sections. Even so, the hooks return often enough to keep the five minutes and 10 seconds easy to follow.
Lebental also sang every vocal part. That puts the song in the line of 10cc. In 1975, I’m Not in Love built its famous backing track from multitracked voices. The method is the same here on a smaller scale. In other words, one voice, stacked, becomes a choir.
2. Fans of Horn-Section Rock
Next, the second audience comes for the brass. Lebental played tenor sax, alto sax, trumpet and trombone on the track. In effect, that is a full horn section, recorded one part at a time.
Fans of Chicago will know the appeal. The band has long described itself as a rock and roll band with horns. Its original line-up put trumpet, trombone and woodwinds beside Robert Lamm’s keyboards. Changing the Way I Feel brings a similar set of horns to a piano song, with every part played by one person.
3. Songwriters and Home Producers
Finally, the third audience is the smallest and the closest to the subject. The song is about the power a great song has to change a whole day. It is also about the mysterious process of writing one, and anyone who makes music at home will recognise both halves. Lebental also played the grand piano, organ, bass, slide guitar and synth, all in a home studio in Los Angeles. As a result, the track is a record of one person’s studio as much as a song.
The Early Response to the Art Rock of Dave Lebental and Karma Train, and the Live Community Around It
The Early Response
The release came as a single credited on Spotify to both Karma Train and Dave Lebental. Then a music video followed three days later. The song then moved onto the 2026 album Stylus as its third track, which suggests the songwriter still rated it. Stylus arrived on 20 February 2026. It gathered singles from the previous 18 months, from Mindy Please in August 2024 to Hopium in January 2026. Changing the Way I Feel sits in the middle of that run.
The listener figures above are modest, and this desk reads them plainly. In short, this is a catalogue song with a loyal audience rather than a viral one. It is worth finding because of how it was built, not because of a number.
The Community Around It
Above all, the community is live. Karma Train is the Los Angeles band behind Lebental on stage. According to the song’s page on the Lebental website, the band has performed it on US tour dates. Online, the community gathers on YouTube, where a live-streamed concert runs roughly once a month. The channel lists streams on 5 November and 2 December 2025, then on 14 January, 10 February and 5 March 2026.
In February 2026 the band also played The Whisky. Live clips of Mulberry Drive and Addition By Subtraction from that show are on the channel. The most recent upload, on 10 September 2026, is the official video for I Can Always Count On You. It has since passed 85,000 views.
Altogether, that is the circle around this song. It is a working musician, a live band, and a stream chat that turns up for the next one.
BestMusic.News curator team: “Most one-person productions sound like a demo. Changing the Way I Feel sounds like a band, because Lebental plays the horns and stacks the voices with the patience of an arranger. That is the reason it earns its place in the ranking.”
Where to Hear Changing the Way I Feel by Dave Lebental, Art Rock From Los Angeles
Stream Changing the Way I Feel on Spotify and Apple Music. Follow Dave Lebental on Spotify, Apple Music, Instagram and Facebook, and watch the live streams on the YouTube channel.
Follow Karma Train on Spotify, YouTube and Facebook.
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