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The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night (new album / MP3)

Friday, Jan 8, 2010

The Besnard Lakes
The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
(Jagjaguwar)
Releasing: 9 March


“Albatross”, the new single from the upcoming The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night LP, doesn’t have nearly as depressing a sound as the title would make you think. The effect of its dreamy vocals and elongated instrumentation is actually borderline uplifting; if the Ancient Mariner had this on his iPod, he might have been cool with his mates dying off one by one with cursed looks in their eyes. Two Canadian and many European tour dates are below the jump.


SONG LIST
01 Like The Ocean, Like The Innocent; Pt 1: The Ocean
02 Like The Ocean, Like The Innocent; Pt 2: The Innocent
03 Chicago Train
04 Albatross
05 Glass Printer
06 Land of Living Skies; Pt 1: The Land
07 Land of Living Skies; Pt 2: The Living Skies
08 And This is What We Call Progress
09 Light Up The Night
10 The Lonely Moan


Albatross [MP3]
     



  
TOUR DATES
3/11/10 Toronto, ON The Horseshoe
3/12/10 Montreal, QC Il Motore
3/25/10 Dublin, IRE Crawdaddy
3/26/10 Bristol, UK Arnoifini
3/27/10 Manchester, UK Deaf Institute
3/28/10 Glasgow, UK Stereo
3/29/10 Leeds, UK Brundell Social Club
3/30/10 Birmingham, UK Hare and Hounds
3/31/10 London, UK Cargo
4/1/10 Brussells, BE Bonatique
4/2/10 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso
4/3/10 Utrecht, NL Ekko
4/19/10 Paris, FR Le Point Emphmere

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