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The Besnard Lakes - ...are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (Album Review) Friday, 05 February 2021 Photo: Joseph Yarmush After a year dominated by a killer virus it’s probably justified to welcome an album based around death with a sense of scorn and discontent. But to do so in the face of the Besnard Lakes’ sixth studio effort ‘The Besnard Lakes are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings’ would be a colossal mistake. Comprising four sides of vinyl named ‘N...

A sprawling, symphonic rock ensemble from a country that has come to be known for them, The Besnard Lakes have been a constant at the coalface of Canadian independent music for some 15 years now. In this time, the group – which revolves around the creative and romantic partnership of husband and wife Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas – have created a respectable body of work, five albums of dense, textured progressive music, two of which have been nominated for Canada’s Mercury equiv...

The Canadian art-rockers consider the cycle of life and death. Review by Kieron Tyler

The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Is Absurdly Maximalist Published Jan 27, 2021 7 Pop quiz: how many of the Besnard Lakes first five albums are double LPs? Appreciators of the Montreal outfits maximalist psych-rock voyages may answer something like "three" or "four," which, while plausible, would be completely wrong. For all their orchestral ambition, previous efforts have never hit the 50-minute mark, managing to pack full worlds of instruments, concepts and at...

9 Best Songs of the Last Two Weeks: HAIM, Little Dragon and Moses Sumney, Taylor Swift, and More Plus Julia Jacklin, The Besnard Lakes, Anna Burch, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone) Little Dragon Welcome to the 45th and likely very last Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because there weren’t quite enough inspiring songs to put together a full list, so this week’s list cove...

The Besnard Lakes Share New Song “Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again” The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Due Out January 29, 2021 via FatCat/Flemish Eye Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts Photography by Joseph Yarmush The Besnard Lakes Montreal, Canada’s psych rockers The Besnard Lakes are releasing a new album, the impressively titled The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings, on January 29, 2021 via FatCat. Now they have ...