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How do you sell that in an age of bite-sized streaming? How do you make it relevant? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Who gives a shit!\" the Besnard Lakes realized. Ignited by their love for each other, for playing music together, the sextet found themselves unspooling the most uncompromising recording of their career. Despite all its grandeur, ...The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings honours the very essence of punk rock: the notion that a band need only be relevant to itself. At last the Besnard Lakes have crafted a continuous long-form suite: nine tracks that could be listened together as one, like Spiritualized's \u003ci\u003eLazer Guided Melodies\u003c\/i\u003e or even \u003ci\u003eDark Side of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, overflowing with melody and harmony, drone and dazzle, the group's own unique weather. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere now, the Besnard Lakes finally dispensed with the two\/three-year album cycle, taking all the time they needed to conceive, compose, record and mix their opus. Some of its songs were old, resurrected from demos cast aside years ago. Others were literally wood shedded in the cabanon behind Lasek and Goreas's \u003ci\u003eRigaud Ranch\u003c\/i\u003e - invented and reinvented, relishing this rougher sound. Some of that distortion makes its way into the final mix: an incandescent crackle that had receded from the Besnards' more recent output. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRightly - nay, definitively! - \u003ci\u003eThe Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings\u003c\/i\u003e is a double LP. \u003ci\u003eNear Death \u003c\/i\u003eis the title of the first side. \u003ci\u003eDeath, After Death\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e follow next. It's literally a journey into (and back from) the brink: the story of the Besnard Lakes' own odyssey but also a remembrance of others', especially the death of Lasek's father in 2019. 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