The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse Image
  • Summary: Album number two for the Canadian indie-rockers is their first for Jagjaguwar.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. 90
    An amazing album. [Mar 2007, p.75]
  2. That music so majestically restrained in pace can make your heart beat so quickly is a testament to The Besnard Lakes' focus and ability to coat each millisecond of track time with an utterly captivating sound without ever becoming clogged up with their myriad ideas.
  3. Their overarching fingernail-meets-chalkboard eeriness... is what prevents a lapse into the preciousness that sometimes accompanies orchestrated indie rock, making the album a rousing success. [#16, p.90]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 30
  2. Negative: 2 out of 30
  1. JoelZ.
    10
    One of those albums I largely was unimpressed with at first listen but 10 listens later blown away, so intricate and beautiful.
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  2. brucea
    5
    BOOOORING! This is a great album to take you through a mushroom trip, but not something for your car's CD player. The plodding tunes are richly crafted but have no hooks. Expand
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  3. JoshK
    1
    How many bands does this band rip off? I hear some Simon and Garfunkle, I hear some Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Beach Boys, and even KISS. Holy fuck. Can they be any more original? Plus, it's boring except for one song...the led Zeppelin song. Expand
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