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Review: The Besnard Lakes, 'A Coliseum Complex Museum'

The Besnard Lakes' new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, comes out Jan. 22. Brendan George Ko/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Review: The Besnard Lakes, 'A Coliseum Complex Museum'

January 13, 2016 • On its fifth album, the Montreal band indulges its progressive tendencies and wide-angle vision of dream-steeped psychedelia, in the process exuding a gentle kind of heaviness.

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Song Premiere: The Besnard Lakes, 'People Of The Sticks'

January 10, 2013 • Hear a new song from the band's upcoming album Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO. The soaringly gorgeous record isn't out until April, but you can hear this early cut, "People Of The Sticks."

The Best Album Covers Of 2010

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The Best Album Covers Of 2010

December 14, 2010 • Album covers can set the tone for how we imagine music in our minds. Sometimes they try to make a statement, or just be an evocative image that invites you in.

The Besnard Lakes: Filling The Room With Sound

The Besnard Lakes' "Albatross" cakes on layers of glorious harmonies, overblown guitars and swirling feedback. Jessica Eaton hide caption

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The Besnard Lakes: Filling The Room With Sound

March 11, 2010 • "Albatross" finds Olga Goreas singing sweetly while accompanied by insular, shoegaze-tinged fuzz. Yet as the song cakes on layers of glorious harmonies, it begins to buckle like a collapsing star.

'Albatross' by The Besnard Lakes

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A Pink Floyd Cover From The Hotrats, Sounds From Sweden, Surfer Blood And More

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All Songs Considered

A Pink Floyd Cover From The Hotrats, Sounds From Sweden, Surfer Blood And More

January 25, 2010 • On this All Songs Considered, we've got Sweden's jj and Fredrik. Plus The Besnard Lakes, Surfer Blood, Midlake, singer-songwriter Josiah Wolf and The Hotrats covering a classic from Pink Floyd.

A Pink Floyd Cover From The Hotrats, Sounds From Sweden, Surfer Blood And More

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Antibalas, The Besnard Lakes, Let's Go Sailing

April 12, 2007 • The African beats of Brooklyn's Antibalas; The Sahara's rebel group Tinariwen; Dark harmonies from The Besnard Lakes; The controlled chaos of Frog Eyes; The whimsical pop of Let's Go Sailing and more.

Antibalas, The Besnard Lakes, Let's Go Sailing

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Hummable Pop Gets Dark and Theatrical

March 8, 2007 • With a sound that's part '70s art-rock and part '60s California chamber-pop, The Montreal collective members draw from the Brian Wilson school of arranging.

'Disaster' by The Besnard Lakes

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