This New Besnard Lakes Single is Sugar In Our Craw

The Besnard Lakes‘ Are The Dark Horses went criminally unnoticed when it dropped three years ago. We listened to the shit out of that album. And while the Montreal outfit used to take Beach Boys pastiche to Mt. McKinley heights, they’ve moved on. To another decade. “Albatross” is the first mpfreeview/single from their forthcoming Lakes Are The Roaring Nights LP, a monument to Fleetwood Mac that’s nothing if not towering.

The Besnard Lakes, Albatross

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Featuring music from: The Idle Hands, Land Of Talk, The Mary Onettes, The Cure, JETSKIIS, The Sour Notes, Bear Face, Dead Models, Sex Beet, Close Lobsters, School Of Seven Bells, Underworld, Chapel Club, Aloha, Robbers On High Street, Francis And The Lights, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Tropics, New Young Pony Club, Foster The People, !!!, Everything Everything, and Abe Vigoda

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Francis Starlite is a dapper, Wesleyan-educated gentleman who once came to our office wearing a black Revolutionary-era-looking peacoat. He has a penchant for exacting production and voice with high soul gloss, and he just released his wonderful debut album, It’ll Be Better, on Cantora. You can stream that below, preferably with dim lights and someone [...]

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