THE BESNARD LAKES - Release new single "Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again." Announce 3 shows via Noonchorus!

THE BESNARD LAKES DROP NEW SINGLE “OUR HEADS, OUR HEARTS ON FIRE AGAIN”  https://youtu.be/kmvVaXpbjbc ANNOUNCE 3-DATE LIVESTREAM TOUR VIA NOONCHORUS WITH SHOWS HAPPENING ON FEBRUARY 5, MARCH 6 AND APRIL 3 NEW ALBUM THE BESNARD LAKES ARE THE LAST OF THE GREAT THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS OUT JANUARY 29 VIA FAT CAT RECORDS (USA) AND FLEMISH EYE (CANADA)

Photo Credit: Joseph Yarmush The Besnard Lakes have shared a new taste of their forthcoming album The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (out January 29) by way of  new single, “Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again.”   They share, “the track started as an Oggy Film Song. A skeletal version of the song had been in the Besnard vault for several years after we initially rejected it for a film soundtrack. It went through a couple drafts before we tore it apart, rejiggered some parts and resurrected it to its new form. The song is an ode to logic and intuition and being able to learn from the past.”   Listen to the single by way of the Dr. Cool directed video here:

The Besnard Lakes have announced 3 livestream shows in support of the forthcoming album.   In conjunction with Noonchorus the band will perform on February 5, March 6, and April 3.  The streams go live at 7pm EST for each show and tickets are available here.  Last month the band dropped “Feuds With Guns” and before that they shared “Raindrops.” The singles were picked up by, among others, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Exclaim!, Northern Transmissions, and Under The Radar.   “'Feuds With Guns' is indeed a floaty, melancholic little dream-state pop song, all manner of wistful little key melodies running through it.  Stereogum with “Feuds With Guns” Besnard Lakes also delivers one of their most intoxicating  pop songs yet.   Under The Radar "’Raindrops’ combines shoegaze atmospherics and Beach Boys-eque harmonies in a widescreen sound that is signature Besnard Lakes."  Brooklyn Vegan “heavenly vocals.” MXDWN on “Feuds With Guns” "the slow-burning, dream pop-like ‘Feuds With Guns’ is one part Prince, one part Beach House."  Joy Of Violent Movement “Raindrops is right in that dreamy, hazy sweet spot this band has.”  Stereogum The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is being released by Fat Cat Records in the US and Flemish Eye in Canada.  On release day - January 29 - the band will throw a release party via YouTube, making themselves available for questions and conversations with fans.   More details to be announced soon.    In making The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings, The Besnard Lakes dispensed with a timeline and instead took all the time they needed  to conceive, compose, record and mix the album.  Some of its songs are old, resurrected from demos cast aside years ago. Others were literally woodshedded in the cabin behind Lasek and Goreas's "Rigaud Ranch" - invented and reinvented, relishing this rougher sound. Some of that distortion makes its way into the final mix: an incandescent crackle that had receded from the Besnards' more recent output.   Contemplating the darkness of dying and the light on the other side, The Besnard Lakes Are The  Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is a double LP.  "Near Death" is the title of the first side. "Death,"  "After Death," and "Life" follow next. It's a  journey into (and back from) the brink: the story of the  Besnard Lakes' own odyssey but also a remembrance of others', especially the death of Lasek's father in 2019.  Being on your deathbed is perhaps the most psychedelic trip  you can go on: in Lasek's father's case, he surfaced from a  morphine dream to talk about "a window" on his blanket, with "a carpenter inside, making intricate objects." That experience pervades the album. There might be nothing less trendy than an hour-long psych-rock epic by a band of  Canadian grandmasters. Then again, there might be nothing we need more.  Pre-order The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings here (Canadian fans can mailorder the LP via Flemish Eye here).

The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings tracklisting:  1.  Blackstrap 2.  Raindrops 3.  Christmas Can Wait 4.  Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again 5.  Feuds With Guns 6.  The Dark Side Of Paradise 7.  New Revolution 8.  The Father Of Time Wakes Up 9.  The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings

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