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Most indie rock bands with a serious Beach Boys jones usually get the band's sunny confection element, but fail when it comes to nailing the unique character of the Wilson harmonies. Not the Besnard Lakes, whose worn-on-the-sleeve Wilson adoration ... Full Descriptionis backed up by a quartet of vocalists who can sing and harmonize very well and very high (no small accomplishment). On THE BESNARD LAKES ARE THE DARK HORSE, the Montreal band blends their love with a disjointed riffs-and-soundscape approach that starts with an epic pretense and succeeds in execution. The results are a thrill, simultaneously familiar and wholly new.
The Besnard Lakes: Jace Lasek (vocals, guitars, synthesizer, electric bass, drums, tambourine); Olga Goreas (vocals, glockenspiel, electric bass); The Fifth String Liberation Singers Choir (vocals); Jerimiah Bullied (guitar); Steve Raegele, Jonathan Cummins (guitars); Heather Schnarr, Sophie Trudeau (violin); Nicole Lizee (strings, flute, saxophone, horns); Billy Bouffard (flute, saxophone); Chris Seligman (French horn); Kevin Laing, George Donoso III, Jean-Paul Terron (drums).
No Depression (p.92) - "Most devastating of all is, appropriately, 'Devastation', a hyper-heavy slab of beautifully epic post-prog." Hide Description Besnard Lake Are The Dark Horse Music | List Price | $14.97 (You save $2.78) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs | | Label | Jagjaguwar | | Orig Year | 2007 | | All Time Sales Rank |  29015  | | CD Universe Part number | 7362527 | | Catalog number | 106 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 20, 2007 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Chris Seligman - French horn
George Donoso III
Billy Bouffard - flute, saxophone
Fifth String Liberation Singers Choir - vocals
Heather Schnarr
Jace Lasek - vocals, guitars, synthesizer, electric bass, drums, tambourine
Jean-Paul Terron - drums
Jerimiah Bullied - guitar
Jonathan Cummins - guitars
Kevin Laing
Nicole Lizee - strings, flute, saxophone, horns
Olga Goreas - vocals, glockenspiel, electric bass
Sophie Trudeau - violin
Steve Raegele
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