The Besnard Lakes
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Genre: Pop / Progressive / Psychedelic
Location Montreal, Please select your region., Ca
Profile Views: 652479
Last Login: 3/16/2012
Member Since 2/2/2006
Website www.thebesnardlakes.com
Record Label Jagjaguwar, Outside, Earworm, Static Caravan
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
There is a war now. The message has been sent through short wave in code. The Besnard Lakes twisting chronicle, or fever dream, of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock gods has turned violent. Loyalty, dishonor, love, hatred all seen through the eyes of two spies, fighting a war that may not be real. One follows the other as they receive coded messages and spread destruction. The city is burning, and it's to the benefit of music obsessives everywhere. Once again, the husband-and-wife duo of Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek has crafted a majestic, sprawling vision of guitar bombast and captivating pop experiments. The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night calls upon the influence of ELO and finer parts of the Alan Parsons Project in its orchestration. Still helped by the Ghost of Beach Boys Past, the album is more Dennis Wilson than Brian, and more Peter Green Fleetwood Mac than Lindsay Buckingham. That said, standout track "Albatross" has all the swagger of a Stevie Nicks-led Fleetwood Mac classic or Roy Orbison reimagined as a rollicking, snakeskin-booted Mazzy Star -- dousing it all in gas and throwing the match as we hear its tale of Vancouver's skid row and its inhabitants. The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night was tracked and recorded on Breakglass Studio's latest acquisition, a 1968 Neve germanium mixing console rumored to have been used to record portions of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. The album also introduces some new instrumentation for the band: 12 string guitar, flute, omnichord and mellotron. With the aid of Besnard members Kevin Laing on drums and Richard White on guitar, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night is a dense, ambitious recording, experimenting, as always, with the studio as instrument. The album is a dark bliss-out that folds the eerie guitar epics of the Montreal band's breakthrough into a wall of affected drones and atmospherics, but with a toughened immediacy and grit that gives the form a much-needed shove over the cliffs, making for a haunting, provocative swan dive into the crushing tide. "The Besnard Lakes make music to get lost in, a rapturous sound that invites comparison to the dense studio recordings of Phil Spector and the Beach Boys." - Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune "The dark heart of Canada has landed, burning within the psychedelic dirge-pop of this husband and wife-led Montreal Collective." - Uncut -
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10 of 726MoreI loved you guys at the Green Man in Wales last summer...made my weekend x
Just a reminder to HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT CANADIAN MUSIC by listening to THE BESNARD LAKES on THIS GREAT WHITE NORTH. It's an ALL CANADIAN music show FRIDAYS 4:30-6pm CST on 91.7 KOOP FM in Austin, Texas. You can listen online at www.KOOP.org.
Cheers!
Doug The Canuck
March 10 at the Manning Bar. tickets have been bought. see you there!
You guys are amazing ! Keep up the good work! Much Love and Respect.
Besnard Lakes make Monolith Cocktail's best LPs of 2010.
http://monolithcocktail.wordpress.com/december-2010/choice-picks-of-2010-part-i/
Dom Valvona
Their concerts make me flyyyyyy...
thanks for the add! fantastic music!
so HAPPY! you will be at the Cercle, Québec city this coming saturday. WOW hope to hear Albatross(of course I will ; )). Great idea to bring your fantastik music to the Cercle. It's going to be magical! thank you for sharing with us
You melt my face into a delicious grilled cheese goodness... and I thank you. Love love love your music... I hope to experience a full set of your powerful awesomeness.
great music...and thanks for the add :)