[Jagjaguar/Inertia : 2010]The Besnard Lakes are a husband and wife team that make the kind of chilled out, pop-meets-classic-psychedlia, harmony-heavy indie rock that doesn’t get old quickly.
With atmospheric distortion and cosmic 70s pop vibes, The Roaring Night is a heady, layered summer trip that takes as much from Led Zeppelin and Love style prog as it does from the classic pop melodies of the Beach Boys, and Ennio Morricone’s twanging ye olde western guitar licks. Sure it’s overblown in parts – overly expansive instrumental freak outs and indulgent fuzzed out noise segments within otherwise great songs can make the album feel sluggish at times. But let’s stick to the positives: this record has a shimmering and serene beauty that deserves your attention – particularly “Chicago Train”, “Albatross” and the grungier-Band-Of-Horses sound of “And This Is What We Call Progress”.
Desert roadtrip, anyone?
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