The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings (2021)
Singles from The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings
"Raindrops" Released: October 22, 2020
"Our Heads, Our Hearts on Fire Again" Released: December 17, 2020
The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings is the sixth studio album by Canadian psychedelic rock band the Besnard Lakes. It was released on January 29, 2021, on Flemish Eye Records in Canada, FatCat Records in the United States, and Full Time Hobby Records in the rest of the world.[1]
Writing and composition
The music featured on this album was originally written ten years prior as a single track film score.[2] It was the band's first ever double album.[3]
The album was met with favourable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[5] Review aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the release a 7.3/10 based on a critical consensus of 10 reviews.[4]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas