'The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings' Is Absurdly Maximalist
'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...
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