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The Epic ‘The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings’ Sustains Its Emotional Payoff
With their first album in five years, the Besnard Lakes capture the journey from the primordial origins of life to the unknown that awaits us after death.
The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
The Besnard Lakes
29 January 2021
Judging from the pacing of their albums, if the Besnard Lakes made films, they’d make the type of films that hover at a uniform pace, devoid of flashy explosions or even conventional dramatic escalations. This is to say that the Quebec-based quintet’s albums unfold slowly. Listeners who require music that delivers frequent and pronounced emotional payoffs will no doubt walk away from