The Besnard Lakes Essentials

The Besnard Lakes Essentials

As the proprietor of Montreal's Breakglass Studios, Jace Lasek has produced albums by many of the city's indie luminaries. But since the early '00s, he and wife/bassist Olga Goreas have fused Beach Boys harmonies and stormy, Spiritualized-sized psychedelia as The Besnard Lakes. The band can take multiple routes to the same interstellar destination: Where “Devastation” uses sludge-metal riffage to thrust its sweetly cooed chorus skyward, “Golden Lion” floats atop gentle waves of lysergic jangle and helium-high hooks. But as “And This Is What We Call Progress” shows, the Besnards can also cut through the gauzy shimmer with post-punk urgency.

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