There are two kinds of live albums, Dr. Dog discovered when they set out to make their own. The first is full of overdubs to correct mistakes the musicians make onstage. The second tends to amplify crowd noise, as if to emphasize that it’s a concert recording. The Philadelphia rockers pursued a third path on “Live at a Flamingo Hotel,” which premieres today on Speakeasy along with a live video for the song "Shadow People."

“We wanted to make it feel like an actual record, instead of just a live thing,” singer and bassist Toby Leaman says. “The experience should be like you’re listening to a record, because you’re not actually at a show.”

The 19-track album comprises songs recorded over a 20-concert stretch last year, which meant the band had between four and 20 versions of a track to choose from, depending on how frequently they performed any given song. Listening back to pick the best takes wasn’t Leaman’s favorite activity, though he says it had its rewards.

“That’s not something I get a big kick out of, looking at videos or listening to us live. It always just stresses me out,” he says. “But going into it know that we’re definitely going to have good versions, and being able to sit back and listen to what everybody is doing, that was revelatory. If you’re singing and playing at the same time, you can’t wander around in your head to see what the keys are doing or what’s going on in percussion world.”

“Live at a Flamingo Hotel” is Dr. Dog’s first concert album, after seven full-length studio releases dating back to 2002. None of the venues on the band’s 2014 tour was called the Flamingo Hotel, which was the point: for Dr. Dog, the Flamingo Hotel represents a state of mind.