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Bandcamp / Buy Blessed are content to play the long game. With a sparse string of releases and a superhuman tour schedule, the post-punk quartet from the small city of Abbotsford, British Columbia have slowly crafted a wiry, melodic sound. The songs on their third eponymous EP unfold patiently, shunning traditional structures in favor of extended runtimes and unexpected textures. For this release, the band tapped Purity Ringâs Corin Roddick, Tortoiseâs John McEntire, and Holy Fuckâs Graham Walsh to mix one song apiece, making iii a sampling of supercharged variations on a theme. iii marks Blessedâs signing to Flemish Eye, a long-running label that has positioned itself as a hub for dark art-rock from Western Canada. The B.C. band slots in perfectly beside releases from Preoccupations, N0V3L, and underrated Saskatoon group the Avulsions (whose Josh Rohs played keyboards on Blessedâs sole full-length, ....
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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 Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings, which stretches nine tracks across an 72-minute meditation on death, dying and the afterlife. It s a weighty, demanding listen, but the band s 18-year history has given them plenty of experience that helps them pull it off in classic Besnard Lakes style. ....
The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Out January 29 Via Fat Cat Dec 29, 2020 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Joseph Yarmush The Besnard Lakes Montreal psych rock band The Besnard Lakes have shared their latest single, “Feuds With Guns,” premiering with Under the Radar. The band is currently gearing up for the release of it’s extravagantly titled sixth LP, The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings. The concept behind the album is equally impressive as well. The record acts as a journey to and from the brink of death, chronicled through a seventy-two minute double LP epic. The first side is entitled “Near Death” while “Death,” “After Death,” and “Life” follow after. The band has already shared two singles from the album, “Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again” and “Raindrops,” both of which made our Songs of the Week. ....
The Suitesixteen – Mine Would Be The Sun (Self-Released)+ Orville Peck – Show Pony (Columbia)+ Tough Age – Which Way Am I? (Mint) Ora Cogan – Bells In The Ruins (Prism Tongue)+ Numbing – Make Yourself Hard To Kill (Self-Released)+ Non La – Not In Love (Kingfisher Bluez) Freak Heat Waves – Zap The Planet (Telephone Explosion)+ redress – peacebird (Self-Released)+ U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (4AD) New Fries – Is The Idea Of Us (Telephone Explosion) Dog Day – Present (fundog) various – Ever New (Self-Released) Gum Country – Somewhere (Kingfisher Bluez) Destroyer – Have We Met (Merge) Zoon – Bleached Wavves (Paper Bag) Rebecca Foon – Waxing Moon (Constellation) Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Born Deadly (Self-Released) ....