- Record Label: Jagjaguwar
- Release Date: Feb 20, 2007
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Universal acclaim- based on 47 Ratings
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Positive: 41 out of 47
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Mixed: 3 out of 47
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Negative: 3 out of 47
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The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark HorseYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreUniversal acclaim- based on 47 Ratings
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AlexJMar 5, 2007I was expecting something more than just another collection of jagged and mismatched musical ideas stiched together. Its progressive tag is up to some debate, but its really nothing new when placed alongside many of their fellow counterparts.
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bruceaFeb 24, 2007BOOOORING! 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.
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GreckoXSep 21, 2007Ummm... don't listen to this while driving... a soppy, droning experience - not at all what was expected from the reviews.
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Sift through Are the Dark Horse and the sounds of the Beach Boys or Orbison can certainly be found, but the band has yet to learn the clean, economical songwriting of their influences.
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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.
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Too big in their influences and scope to fit in even the biggest pigeonhole imaginable, The Besnard Lakes thankfully produce music chock-full of tunes and spine-tingly loveliness not seen since The Beach Boys or more recently the sheer joy and ridiculous grandeur of The Polyphonic Spree.