The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
The Besnard Lakes
Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
New double album out 29th Jan 2021
via Full Time Hobby
Watch the video for new single ‘Raindrops’
(photo credit Joseph Yarmush)Canadian band The Besnard Lakes have today announced their new album “Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings”, due for release on 29th Jan 21, as well as sharing the first cut from the record in the form of ‘Raindrops’. The band said of the track itself – “This song and video details a psychedelic flight through the mind while deep in an altered state. The song lyrically references the death of Mark Hollis from Talk Talk (“Garden of Eden spirited”) and also describes the idea of evolution determining the story of the Garden of Eden.”
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. 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. …Are 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.pre-order: https://smarturl.it/tblthunderstorm
Tracklist
1. Blackstrap
3. Chrismas Can Wait
4. Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again
5. Fueds With Guns
6. The Side of Paradise
7. New Revolution
8. The Father of Time Wakes Up
9. Last of the Great Thunderstorms