The Besnard Lakes

The Besnard Lakes return with their seventh album The Besnard Lakes Are the Ghost Nation. In doing so confirming their status as one of the most peerlessly consistent bands over the 20 years plus of their existence-with a purity of vision and level of quality that is hard to rival in modern music.

“I feel like it's a very formidable title, symbolic of the times,” says co-singer Jace Lasek. “It's talkingabout the death of nations, the threat of Canada being the 51st state. There is the desire to be leftalone, to let community be community, all of those things that feel like they might be under siege;that's what the ghost nation is.

”The band confirms this was partly in response to their last album, 2021’sThe Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings. “The last record was so heavy,” reflects Jace. “There wasso much weight and heavy themes, like my dad dying. It was just death everywhere on that record.This album doesn't really seem to be that. To me, it seems very playful.”

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