The Besnard Lakes are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Besnard Lakes, The SKU: FTH382LP Barcode: 5060626462700 25.00 £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Full Time Hobby Released Date: 29th January 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The Besnard Lakes have passed through death and they’re here to tell the tale. Nearly five years after their last lightning-tinted volley, the magisterial Montreal psych-rock band have sworn off compromise, split with their long-standing label, and completed a searing, 72-minute suite about the darkness of dying and the light on the other side. The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is the group’s sixth album and the first in more than 15 years to be released away from a certain midwestern American indie record company. After 2016’s A Coliseum Complex Museum – which saw Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas attempting shorter, less sprawling songs – the Besnards and their label decided it was time to go their separate ways; with that decision came a question of whether to even continue the project at all. What use is a band with an instinct for long, tectonic tunes – rock songs with chthonic heft and ethereal grace, five or 10 or 18 minutes long? How do you sell that in an age of bite-sized streaming? How do you make it relevant? “Who gives a shit!” the Besnard Lakes realized. Ignited by their love for each other, for playing music together, the sextet found themselves unspooling the most uncompromising recording of their career. Despite all its grandeur, …The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings honours the very essence of punk rock: the notion that a band need only be relevant to itself. At last the Besnard Lakes have crafted a continuous long-form suite: nine tracks that could be listened together as one, like Spiritualized’s Lazer Guided Melodies or even Dark Side of the Moon, overflowing with melody and harmony, drone and dazzle, the group’s own unique weather. Here now, the Besnard Lakes finally dispensed with the two/three-year album cycle, taking all the time they needed to conceive, compose, record and mix their opus. Some of its songs were old, resurrected from demos cast aside years ago. Others were literally woodshedded in the cabanon behind Lasek and Goreas’s “Rigaud Ranch” – invented and reinvented, relishing this rougher sound. Some of that distortion makes its way into the final mix: an incandescent crackle that had receded from the Besnards’ more recent output. Rightly – nay, definitively! – The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is a double LP. “Near Death” is the title of the first side. “Death,” “After Death,” and “Life” follow next. It’s literally a journey into (and back from) the brink: the story of the Besnard Lakes’ own odyssey but also a remembrance of others’, especially the death of Lasek’s father in 2019. Being on your deathbed is perhaps the most psychedelic trip you can go on: in Lasek’s father’s case, he surfaced from a morphine dream to talk about “a window” on his blanket, with “a carpenter inside, making intricate objects.” That experience pervades the album, catching fire on the song “Christmas Can Wait”; elsewhere the band pays tribute to the late Mark Hollis and, on “The Father of Time Wakes Up,” they mourn the death of Prince. In these scorched and pitted times, as the world smoulders, there might be nothing less trendy than an hour-long psych-rock epic by a band of Canadian grandmasters. Then again, there might be nothing we need more. …The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is a bright-blazing requiem: nine tunes that are one tune and six musicians who make one band – unleashed and unconstrained, piercing and technicolour. At the end of the golden day, the Besnard Lakes are right where they should be. Artist Besnard Lakes, The Genre Rock And Pop Label Full Time Hobby Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Blackstrap Raindrops Christmas Can Wait Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again Feuds With Guns The Dark Side of Paradise New Revolution The Father of Time Wakes Up Last of the Great Thunderstorms Warnings Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Mike Oldfield Guitars Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 23rd September 2016 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mike Oldfield Guitars £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1694 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 23rd September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Teleman GOOD TIME/HARD TIME Rock And Pop | Moshi Moshi | 1LP Released 7th April 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Teleman GOOD TIME/HARD TIME £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Moshi Moshi SKU: MOSHILP122 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Janis Joplin Pearl Rock And Pop | Mobile Fidelity | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released 9th March 2016 £73.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Janis Joplin Pearl £73.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mobile Fidelity SKU: MFSL2454 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm Released Date: 9th March 2016 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Moreish Idols Float EP Rock And Pop | Speedy Wunderground | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 12th August 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Moreish Idols Float EP £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Speedy Wunderground SKU: SWP007V Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 12th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Steely Dan Aja Rock And Pop | UMR | 1LP Released 29th September 2023 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steely Dan Aja £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMR SKU: 4535963 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eric Clapton Nothing But the Blues Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 2LP, Box Set Released 24th June 2022 £30.00 - £215.00 Select options Eric Clapton Nothing But the Blues £30.00 - £215.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music Formats: 2LP, Box Set Released Date: 24th June 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Will Butler Generations Rock And Pop | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 25th September 2020 £20.00 - £21.00 Select options Will Butler Generations £20.00 - £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th September 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Johnny Marr Adrenalin Baby – Deluxe Edition Rock And Pop | BMG | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th April 2024 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Marr Adrenalin Baby – Deluxe Edition £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 4099964002331 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Soft Plastics 5 Dreams Rock And Pop | Paper Bag | 1LP Released 10th July 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Soft Plastics 5 Dreams £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Paper Bag SKU: PAPER131LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Beat Happening Music To Climb The Apple Tree By Rock And Pop | Domino | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 11th November 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Beat Happening Music To Climb The Apple Tree By £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: REWIGLP119 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 11th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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