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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 ‘Near Death’, ‘Death’, ‘After Death’ and ‘Life’, the record is a near faultless 72 minut...

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 equivalent, the Polaris Prize. Fifteen years, of course, is a long time to have been in a rock group, a p...

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 outfit's 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 atmosphere into a single slab of wax. They finally give in to impulse on epic-as-it-sounds The Be...

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 covers the last two weeks, but we still only came up with nine choices rather than a Top 10. This week w...