$19.95 – Compact disc / Jagjaguwar / ISBN:0656605212623
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Dark, atmospheric, and dreamlike, Montreal's The Besnard Lakes return with their brand new album, 'The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night' on the much esteemed Jagjaguwar label.
Founded by husband and wife team, Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, Besnard Lakes have become a cult and critical success, releasing two albums, including 2007's Polaris Music Prizenominated 'The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse'. Shimmering and expansive, that album was lauded by Uncut as "amazing" (4.5/5) and praised by Pitchfork for "[transforming] a merely good band to a great one" (8.2/10). The album also made year-end lists in the likes of Mojo and NME.
Since then, the band have also composed and performed an original score for the Mark Ruffalo-directed independent film, 'Sympathy For Delicious', which has since been accepted into the prestigious 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It's this cinematic sweep and panoramic consciousness which filters into '...Are The Roaring Night'.
Boasting an instrumental majesty reminiscent of The Arcade Fire or Black Mountain, the album also manages to be a haunting pop masterpiece, invoking shades of the Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Fleetwood Mac, Roy Orbison and Mazzy Star.
'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'.
A twisted pop chronicle; an eerie guitar epic; a fuzzed-out wall-of-sound; 'The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night' is a hazy masterwork, which more than warrants Billboard Magazine's recent assertion that the group are one of the "Best Bets of 2010".
- Like The Ocean Like The Innocent (part 1/The Ocean)
- Like The Ocean Like The Innocent (part 2/The Innocent)
- Chicago Train
- Albatross
- Glass Printer
- Land Of The Living Skies (part 1/The Land)
- Land Of The Living Skies (part 2/The Living Skies)
- And This Is What We Call Progress
- Light Up The Night
- Lonely Moan, The
The Besnard Lakes
The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
$0.00 – Compact disc / Spunk Records
The second album from this Montreal group is shaping up to be one of the leading contenders for album of the year. Rich with Beach Boys style harmonies, Roy Orbison reverbs and orchestra, Pink Floyd's pacing and Freddy M... Buy or find out more →
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
$19.95 – Compact disc / Jagjaguwar
Dark, atmospheric, and dreamlike, Montreal's The Besnard Lakes return with their brand new album, 'The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night' on the much esteemed Jagjaguwar label.
Founded by husband and wife team, Jace La... Buy or find out more →