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The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night (Bonus Track Version)

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Montreal’s Besnard Lakes are an audiophile’s dream. Led by singer-guitarist Jace Lasek, an in-demand independent Canadian record producer, Besnard Lakes excel at an atmospheric sound that ignores genre limits and creates its own sonic space. His wife, bassist and singer Olga Goreas, adds her ghostly touches as the sound grinds into heavier than expected territory with the seven-minute, prog-rock induced, “Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent, Pt. 2: The Innocent.” There’s a gentle shoegazer haze to the falsetto-chime of “Chicago Train.” ”Albatross” skates away on a Cocteau Twins-like ‘80s synth-led melody and a thick backing chorus that swerves with a nervous flutter. “Glass Printer” kicks up the distortion for a Gothic attack, while “Land of Living Skies, Pt. 2: The Living Skies” floats like the slo-core band Low (or its offshoot Retribution Gospel Choir) with long, languid phrases and warm, enveloping walls of guitar. “And This Is What We Call Progress” quickens the pace. “The Lonely Moan” closes things on an ambient tone-poem wave. Perfect for headphone listening.

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New Besnard !!!!

The album is a dark bliss-out that folds the eerie guitar epics of the Montreal band's breakthrough into a wall of affected drones and atmospherics, but with a toughened immediacy and grit that gives the form a much-needed shove over the cliffs, making for a haunting, provocative new release.

Pink Floyd meets the Beach Boys

Listen closely and you'll hear a very good pop band with lush production, but sometimes gritty sounds and vocals that remind me of the Beach Boys - not a bad compliment at all! Pink Floyd? Pre-Dark Side of the Moon Floyd that is....

I am an overnight superfan!

I found out about this band completely by chance via a recommendation on my favorite webcomic, Questionable Content. The author Jeph commented about it at the end of his daily strip, I checked it out and I was blown away. The sound is huge. The scope is epic. This may sound like hyperbole, but if you listen to the record, I would think you would see otherwise. The description of Beach Boys fused with Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin will give you a basic idea of what you're working with, but the end result is something unlike I've ever heard, really. I would rate this record on possibly par with Radiohead's "Ok Computer" for it's lush soundscapes. But it's only my second listen, only time will tell if it holds up in my mind. But every track on this album is solid. The double opener works best as one massive song. Albatross is not to be missed. There's so much to take in with each these songs. I could say more, but I've probably said enough. Simply put: Love it.

Biography

Formed: 2001 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s

The Besnard Lakes raise immediate comparisons to the Arcade Fire, but those are primarily due to accidents of geography and band chemistry: like the Arcade Fire, the Besnard Lakes are from Montreal and led by a married couple. That's largely where the similarities end, because if this Quebecois collective resembles any of its Canadian counterparts, it would be as an unexpectedly effective combination of the Dears' psychedelic pop hooks and the languid space rock ambience of early Broken Social Scene....
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