Dec 29, 2020 By Caleb Campbell

Montreal psych rock band The Besnard Lakes have shared their latest single, “Feuds With Guns,” premiering with Under the Radar. The band is currently gearing up for the release of it’s extravagantly titled sixth LP, The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings. The concept behind the album is equally impressive as well. The record acts as a journey to and from the brink of death chronicled through a seventy-two minute double LP epic. More

Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 45th and likely very last Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because there weren’t quite enough inspiring songs to put together a full list, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks, but we still only came up with nine choices rather than a Top 10. More

Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Montreal, Canada’s psych rockers The Besnard Lakes are releasing a new album, the impressively titled The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings, on January 29, 2021 via FatCat. Now they have shared another song from it, “Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again.” More

Oct 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 41st Songs of the Week of 2020. This week there was a second and final presidential debate that, unlike the first one, was an actual debate. More

Oct 22, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Montreal, Canada’s psych rockers The Besnard Lakes have announced a new album, the impressively titled The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings, and shared its first single, “Raindrops,” via a video. More

Nov 29, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Canada’s The Besnard Lakes released a new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, back in January via Jagjaguwar. Now the band have announced a new 12-inch, The Besnard Lakes Are the Divine Wind, for release on February 3 via Jagjaguwar. More

Jul 06, 2016 By Olga Goreas

False Starts is our continuing series where an artist writes about the bands they were in before their current band, the unknown early bands they got their start in before forming the current one. Olga Goreas of Canada’s The Besnard Lakes wrote this installment. More

Mar 28, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Canada’s The Besnard Lakes released a brand new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, back in January via Jagjaguwar. Now the band has shared a video for “Necronomicon.” The sci-fi clip features an object from space entering the atmosphere and beautiful vistas as the sphere flies above an alien planet. Nathaniel Larouche directed the video. More

Jan 14, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Various albums due out next Friday, January 22, are now streaming over at NPR First Listen, including the new albums by Eleanor Friedberger, Ty Segall, Shearwater, and The Besnard Lakes. All can be streamed below More

Jan 07, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Canada’s The Besnard Lakes are releasing a brand new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, on January 22 via Jagjaguwar. We’ve already been treated to “Golden Lion” and “The Plain Moon.” Now “The Plain Moon” has a video. Joseph Yarmush directed the clip, which features manipulated live and studio footage of the band. More

Dec 14, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Canada’s The Besnard Lakes are releasing a brand new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, on January 22, 2016 via Jagjaguwar. We’ve already been treated to “Golden Lion” and below is another track from the record, “The Plain Moon.” More

Nov 13, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Le Guess Who? is creeping up on us. As per tradition, we’re celebrating the Dutch festival by letting some of the artists performing take over our mixtape series. More

Nov 12, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Canada’s The Besnard Lakes are releasing a brand new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, on January 22, 2016 via Jagjaguwar. But “The Motorway” is actually the B-side to a 12-inch EP out tomorrow. The title track to the Golden Lion EP is featured on A Coliseum Complex Museum, but the EP also includes two bonus tracks, “The Motorway” being one of them. More

Oct 14, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Canada’s The Besnard Lakes have announced a brand new album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, which is due for release on January 22, 2016 via Jagjaguwar. Below you can stream the first single, the fuzzy “Golden Lion,” which will also be released as a limited edition 12-inch EP on November 13 with two bonus tracks. More

Sep 08, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

British shoegazing icons Ride recently reformed and have already played some U.S. dates (including Coachella). Previously they announced some September and October American dates. Now they’ve announced that DIIV and The Besnard Lakes will support them on some of their dates. More

Apr 04, 2013 By Laura Studarus

With the release of Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO, Canadian rockers The Bernard Lakes dropped this gem of a video for album cut, “People of the Sticks.” More

Jan 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

The Besnard Lakes have announced the arrival of their fourth record, Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO. More

Aug 18, 2010 By Iain S.

The Besnard Lakes have announced some fall tour dates that include shows with Band of Horses, Jenny and Johnny, and others. More

Jun 18, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Canada’s premier music award (think the Grammys here in America or England’s Mercury Prize), The Polaris Prize, has announced its’ long list. Among the 40 artists nominated are Under the Radar favorites Tegan and Sara, Owen Pallet, Broken Social Scene, Caribou, The Besnard Lakes, The New Pornographers, and Plants and Animals. We have the full list. More

May 07, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

View the film-and-numerology(?)-inspired video for The Besnard Lakes’ dreamy psych-rock single, “Albatross.” In the Kara Blake-directed clip, a woman walks into a strange theater and views various old school instructional short films. We have the video. More

Mar 21, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Staff photographer and Under the Radar‘s Co-Publisher/Co-Founder, Wendy Lynch Redfern, was down in Austin, Texas for SXSW 2010. Check out a gallery of her photos from the second day of the music portion of SXSW 2010. The gallery includes photos of She & Him, Broken Social Scene, Local Natives, and The Besnard Lakes. More

Mar 21, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Day two of SXSW was a bit challenging, considering the lack of sleep we’d gotten the night before. Seeing a show at 1 a.m. is all well and good if you don’t have to wake up early the next morning to write about it or conduct other business. We weren’t able to attend any day parties on the second day of SXSW music 2010, due to two photo-shoots we were conducting, including one at the way too early hour of 10 a.m. (well, early for SXSW). But that night we were able to catch sets from two Canadian bands (including one collective who’s seemingly no longer broken), some Los Angeles natives, and a camera shy actress/singer. More

Dec 11, 2009 By Laura Studarus

Montreal collective The Besnard Lakes are out to claim 2010. February 9th will see the release of the 12-inch Albatross, followed a month later (March 9th) by their third full-length, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night. We have the tracklist for both.
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Jan 14, 2016 By Scott Dransfield

Some of indie rock’s most notable acts have married couples at their core: The White Stripes, Yo La Tengo, Low. All of these (barring perhaps the Stripes) have a record of remarkable consistency; maybe there’s something in the simultaneous pursuit of both romantic and musical bliss. Add to this tradition The Besnard Lakes. More

Apr 03, 2013 By J. Pace

The Besnard Lakes were the Dark Horse in 2007, the Roaring Night in 2010, and in 2013 have decided to eschew declaring themselves anything in an album title, going this time for something more… opaque. More

Mar 21, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Day two of SXSW was a bit challenging, considering the lack of sleep we’d gotten the night before. Seeing a show at 1 a.m. is all well and good if you don’t have to wake up early the next morning to write about it or conduct other business. We weren’t able to attend any day parties on the second day of SXSW music 2010, due to two photo-shoots we were conducting, including one at the way too early hour of 10 a.m. (well, early for SXSW). But that night we were able to catch sets from two Canadian bands (including one collective who’s seemingly no longer broken), some Los Angeles natives, and a camera shy actress/singer. More

Mar 16, 2010 By Jim Scott

The Besnard Lakes take their grandiose cues from the ‘70s: massive sounds, massive ideas, double albums, and seven-minute opuses. Their harmonies are rooted in the Brian Wilson and Sgt. Pepper era. The vocal treatment, all reverb and wide-open space, is clearly set in the here and now. More