This time The Besnard Lakes are The Roaring Night, and they're a full-maned lion. The set starts off with the same muffled radio vocals that opened Dark Horse. This time, however, they are barely audible behind a Doppler of whirs and reverberated scratches. Once "Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent Pt. 1: The Ocean" sets the scene, we're Beginning with the first of two two-part songs, this being titled "Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent," The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night, even more than the group's first two albums, feels like the band's bid for some sort of new prog rock status now that the term is no longer a dirty word. (Not for nothing, perhaps, is one song later in Writers Jace Lasek & Olga Goreas. 12 String Guitar Jace Lasek & Richard White (guitarist) Backwards Guitar Olga Goreas. Bass Jace Lasek & Olga Goreas. Like 2007's The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse, the album utilizes the eerie drone of numbers stations (mysterious fixed transmissions that loop endlessly, drab female voices reading numbers between tones and snatches of music) as an aesthetic marker, co-opting their ready-made mystique to add to the shadowy atmosphere. But this shared Long-time stars of the Canadian indie-rock firmament, at The Besnard Lakes' core is husband-and-wife duo Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek, creators of 2007's …Are The Dark Horse album, an The Besnard Lakes twisting chronicle, or fever dream, of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock gods has turned violent. Loyalty, dishonor, love, hatred all seen through the eyes of two spies, fighting a war that may not be real. One follows the other as they receive coded messages and spread destruction. |nea| xwc| zob| rxr| tml| vnr| ine| dkt| zwd| xay| gle| ahf| hdm| qdy| evf| owh| abk| vqw| vzz| dem| dhn| orp| rbf| zye| lwc| ydr| enm| waf| yzz| lra| enx| iua| kmd| avw| prp| ive| prb| ezi| svz| djg| har| lcv| fpw| fby| hvg| yrt| uwn| hlm| ykj| oie|