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 ‘Near Death’, ‘Death’, ‘After Death’ and ‘Life’, the record is a near faultless 72 minute exercise in shoegaze-inspired indie-rock from the Canadian group led by husband and wife team Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas.