View basket “The Legend Of Robin Hood” has been added to your basket. 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 Jaco Pastorius Truth, Liberty & Soul (200g 45rpm 3LP) Jazz | 2xHD | 200g, 3LP, 45rpm Released 2nd May 2024 £160.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jaco Pastorius Truth, Liberty & Soul (200g 45rpm 3LP) £160.00 Genre: Jazz Label: 2xHD SKU: 2HDLP1243-45 Formats: 200g, 3LP, 45rpm Released Date: 2nd May 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View David Gray Mutineers Rock And Pop | IHT Records | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 27th June 2014 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders David Gray Mutineers £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: IHT Records SKU: IHTLP1403 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Catfish & The Bottlemen The Ride Rock And Pop | Island | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 23rd May 2016 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Catfish & The Bottlemen The Ride £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Island SKU: 4779986 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 23rd May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jim Carroll Band, The Catholic Boy Rock And Pop | Fat Possum | 1LP Released 6th December 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jim Carroll Band, The Catholic Boy £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Fat Possum SKU: FP17231 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th December 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View X Ray Pop Ding Dong Disques Rock And Pop | Finders Keepers | 1LP Released 11th November 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders X Ray Pop Ding Dong Disques £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Finders Keepers SKU: CACHE010A Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Graham's picks View Product Quick View Traffic The Studio Albums 1967-74 Rock And Pop | Island | 6LP, Box Set Released 17th May 2019 £129.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Traffic The Studio Albums 1967-74 £129.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Island SKU: 5764924 Formats: 6LP, Box Set Released Date: 17th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cavern Of Anti-Matter blood drums Rock And Pop | Duophonic | 3LP Released 12th January 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cavern Of Anti-Matter blood drums £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Duophonic SKU: DUHFLP35 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 12th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Arab Strap The Turning Of Our Bones Rock And Pop | Rock Action | 7", Includes Download Code, Single Released 23rd October 2020 £7.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Arab Strap The Turning Of Our Bones £7.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rock Action SKU: ROCKACT136S Formats: 7", Includes Download Code, Single Released Date: 23rd October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Blue Rose Code The Ballads Of Peckham Rye Folk | Ronachan Songs | 1LP Released 29th September 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Blue Rose Code The Ballads Of Peckham Rye £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Ronachan Songs SKU: RSLP001 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rick Astley Beautiful Life Rock And Pop | BMG Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th July 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rick Astley Beautiful Life £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Records SKU: 4050538395549 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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