The Besnard Lakes
July 3rd 2008 00:07
Link: www.spunk.com.au/
album: The Besnard Lakes is a dark horse
band: The Besnard Lakes
Spunk
If the Mamas and Papas had been on LSD during their recording sessions, they could easily have sounded like this. Resting somewhere between harmoniously atmospheric and darkly low key The Bansard Lakes’ latest album follows their critically acclaimed debut of 2004. The maturity of the sound owes a great deal to the variety of instruments employed by this six-piece band including violins, flute and French horn along with the standard electric guitars and skins. Similar to late 60’s Pink Floyd; but imagine the Beach Boys are trilling the lyrics in their harmonious way.
The slow experimental progressive rock feel of ‘Disaster’ and ‘For Agent 13’ starts to unravel around ‘And you lied to me’ in an ordered and enjoyable way then gradually builds back upon itself by the fourth track ‘Devastation’ only to slip back into experimentalist mode for ‘Because tonight’. This immediately reminds me of Julee Cruise from the ‘Twin Peaks’ Soundtrack rather than Cruise’s current appearances on Keneth Bager’s ‘Fragments from a space cadet’. ‘Rides the rails’ and ‘On Bedsford and Grand’ pick up the album’s pace again, so by final track ‘Cedric’s War’ there’s a completely satisfied feeling as if this is the journey’s natural end. Enjoyable.
band: The Besnard Lakes
Spunk
If the Mamas and Papas had been on LSD during their recording sessions, they could easily have sounded like this. Resting somewhere between harmoniously atmospheric and darkly low key The Bansard Lakes’ latest album follows their critically acclaimed debut of 2004. The maturity of the sound owes a great deal to the variety of instruments employed by this six-piece band including violins, flute and French horn along with the standard electric guitars and skins. Similar to late 60’s Pink Floyd; but imagine the Beach Boys are trilling the lyrics in their harmonious way.
The slow experimental progressive rock feel of ‘Disaster’ and ‘For Agent 13’ starts to unravel around ‘And you lied to me’ in an ordered and enjoyable way then gradually builds back upon itself by the fourth track ‘Devastation’ only to slip back into experimentalist mode for ‘Because tonight’. This immediately reminds me of Julee Cruise from the ‘Twin Peaks’ Soundtrack rather than Cruise’s current appearances on Keneth Bager’s ‘Fragments from a space cadet’. ‘Rides the rails’ and ‘On Bedsford and Grand’ pick up the album’s pace again, so by final track ‘Cedric’s War’ there’s a completely satisfied feeling as if this is the journey’s natural end. Enjoyable.
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