Chris Lake, Kenny Beats & Chris Lorenzo Flip Cake's 'Long Jacket'

An Unlikely Cross-Genre Collaboration

Chris Lake, Kenny Beats, and Chris Lorenzo have teamed up to rework Cake's 2001 alt-rock staple 'Short Skirt/Long Jacket' into a club track called 'Long Jacket', released via Long Jacket Music. The original leaned on trumpet stabs, vibraslap, and frontman John McCrea's dry, spoken-word cadence. The new version strips that arrangement down to its most hypnotic parts and rebuilds it around a rolling low end and sharp, percussive groove.

Lake and Lorenzo bring the kind of precision-tuned dancefloor sensibility they've built individually over years of house releases, while Kenny Beats—known more for his work behind the boards in hip-hop with artists like Vince Staples and Freddie Gibbs—adds a left-field production touch that pushes the track somewhere neither producer would likely land alone.

A Year in the Making

"Getting Kenny and Chris Lorenzo in the same room was chaos in the best way," Chris Lake said of the collaboration. "Three totally different brains on one track. Kenny's coming from a completely different world, Chris and I have that shorthand from years of working together, it just all clicked."

Chris Lorenzo noted that the project had been on his and Lake's radar for a while before Kenny Beats brought the original Cake vocal into the room. "Almost immediately, the idea for this track clicked once Kenny showed us the original vocal from CAKE," Lorenzo said. "We've been playing it in our sets for the better part of a year now, and it's consistently been one of those records that stands out every time we play it. The reaction has been incredible, and it's been really cool watching the track evolve and connect with people before it's even officially been released."

Context and Momentum

'Short Skirt/Long Jacket' first appeared on Cake's 2001 album Comfort Eagle, peaking at No. 7 on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart and going Platinum in the US. Its wry lyrics and off-kilter groove gave it staying power well beyond its initial run, including a second life as the opening theme for the TV series Chuck.

The release lands during one of the more prolific stretches of Lake's career. His 2025 debut album Chemistry, released on his own Black Book Records, landed in the global Top 10 on Spotify and hit No. 1 on the Dance Album charts on both Apple Music and Beatport. Lake closed out that year as Dancing Astronaut's and SiriusXM's Artist of the Year and as Beatport's top-selling artist in his genre. He's also picked up two GRAMMY nominations along the way and recently delivered an official remix of Taylor Swift's 'Opalite' that reached No. 1 on iTunes. On the live front, Lake played some of his biggest headline shows to date in 2026, including a three-night run at Under The K Bridge Park in Brooklyn and two sold-out nights at LA State Historic Park, each drawing 20,000 fans.