The Besnard Lakes Are the Ghost Nation album review

The Besnard Lakes’ pre­vi­ous album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thun­der­storm Warn­ings, was released in 2021. The album, cre­at­ed in the wake of the death of front man Jace Lasek’s father in 2019, explored the dark­ness of death while search­ing for light and life on the oth­er side. In con­trast, The Besnard…

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The Besnard Lakes live at Oslo Hackney

We’ve wait­ed over two frus­trat­ing years but here they are – Mon­tre­al psych indie band The Besnard Lakes return to UK shores for a run of live shows. Actu­al­ly this night at Oslo in Hack­ney is their penul­ti­mate on the tour. The venue has sched­uled a club night for half an hour after the Bezzies…

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Elephant Stone: powerful beauty of new album Hollow

Mon­tre­al psy­che­del­ic band Ele­phant Stone released their lat­est album Hol­low on Feb­ru­ary 14th. I first saw them at The Lex­ing­ton in 2011 and their stun­ning set remains etched on my mem­o­ry, the pow­er­ful and hyp­not­ic set clos­er Don’t You Know cement­ing an ongo­ing love for this band, and in par­tic­u­lar, Rishi Dhir’s thrilling sitar playing.…

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