The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
The Besnard Lakes are part of the Canadian art-rock avalanche spearheaded most obviously by Arcade Fire. This band makes grown up music for grown up people (which means this record is a number of galaxies away from the shiny packaged pop of Jamiroquai). As art-rock goes, ...Are The Roaring Night is not an especially complex album; this is more art-rock of the sweeping soundscape variety. There’s a lot of ‘space’ on the record, with songs slowly building and periods with hardly anything going on (followed by sudden bursts of life). Not the most accessible band (far less so than many other broadly comparable Canadian groups), but one with plenty to discover. What does really draw you in is the beautiful vocal interplay between the husband/wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. The faster/rockier ‘And This Is What We Call Progress’ is perhaps the album’s stand out song, but it is the more atmospheric tracks that form the soul of the record and are what keep you coming back for more. In fact, if I had to describe this album in one word ‘atmospheric’ would be the only possible choice. Excellent stuff, but requires repeated listens.
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