Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
- Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent, Pt. 1: The Ocean
- Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent, Pt. 2: The Innocent
- Chicago Train
- Albatross
- Glass Printer
- Land of Living Skies, Pt. 1: The Land
- Land of Living Skies, Pt. 2: The Living Skies
- And This Is What We Call Progress
- Light Up the Night
- THR Lonely Moan
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Indie Rock
- Catalog No.
- JAG126LP
- Tracks
- 10
- Pressing
- Download Card
The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night calls upon the influence of ELO and finer parts of the Alan Parsons Project in it's orchestration. Still helped by ghosts of Beach Boys Past, the album is more Dennis Wilson than Brian, and more Peter Green Fleetwood Mac than Lindsay Buckingham. 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.
- Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent, Pt. 1: The Ocean
- Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent, Pt. 2: The Innocent
- Chicago Train
- Albatross
- Glass Printer
- Land of Living Skies, Pt. 1: The Land
- Land of Living Skies, Pt. 2: The Living Skies
- And This Is What We Call Progress
- Light Up the Night
- The Lonely Moan
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Indie Rock
- Tracks
- 10
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'. 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"".
