View basket “Duane And Gregg Allman” 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 Jethro Tull Aqualung Rock And Pop | Parlophone | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 22nd May 2015 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jethro Tull Aqualung £36.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Parlophone SKU: 00825646146604 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 22nd May 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever In The Capital / Read My Mind Rock And Pop | Sub Pop | 7", Single Released 24th April 2019 £7.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever In The Capital / Read My Mind £7.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP1316 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 24th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chris De Burgh The Legend Of Robin Hood Rock And Pop | Butler | 2LP Released 5th November 2021 £21.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Chris De Burgh The Legend Of Robin Hood £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Butler SKU: BUR340091 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 5th November 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Peter Doherty The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime Rock And Pop | Strap Originals | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th March 2022 £18.00 - £20.00 Select options Peter Doherty The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime £18.00 - £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Strap Originals Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th March 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Seahawks Paradise Freaks Rock And Pop | Ocean Moon | 1LP Released 5th May 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Seahawks Paradise Freaks £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Ocean Moon SKU: OM012LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stockholm Guitar Trio Trio HDCD Rock And Pop | Opus 3 | 1LP Released 15th March 2008 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stockholm Guitar Trio Trio HDCD £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Opus 3 SKU: OPUS3CD19701 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th March 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Imagine Dragons Origins Rock And Pop | Polydor | 1LP Released 21st December 2018 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Imagine Dragons Origins £31.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor SKU: 7716795 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kinks, The Misfits Rock And Pop | 1LP Released 27th November 2008 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kinks, The Misfits £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop SKU: VELLP79824 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th November 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nick Lowe The Old Magic (Remastered) Rock And Pop | Yep Roc | 1LP Released 4th November 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nick Lowe The Old Magic (Remastered) £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Yep Roc SKU: LPYEP2248R Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jamie T Panic Prevention Rock And Pop | UMC | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th January 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jamie T Panic Prevention £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 4519372 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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