The Besnard Lakes are a band I’ve slept on. The name pops up enough in the blogosphere and Jagjaguwar (a personal fave) releases their albums–never got around to listening them. So my first experience with the band, new single “Albatross”, off the forthcoming The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night made for quite the experience. Steeped in atmospherics rendered by the spacey lyrics of Olga Goreas, the ooh-ooh backing vocals, and the heavy and hazy sonic palette, the cumulative effect makes for a sound that feels at once fresh and yet indebted to rock history, not unlike label-mates Black Mountain and Pinkmountaintops.

The Besnard Lakes – Albatross