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Mixtape #71

04 April 2016

We’re big fans of Suuns, the Montreal based quartet of Ben Shemie, Max Henry, Joe Yarmush and Liam O'Neill. Over the last decade they have released two excellent albums and a collaborative one with Jerusalem In My Heart which made it to our Album Picks of 2015. The band's entrancing, eerie and pulsating sound incorporates a multitude of elements and genres, from psychedelic and post-punk, to art-rock, electronic and krautrock. With their third album, Hold/Still, due mid-April, we've been itching with anticipation. So we asked the band to put together this month's mixtape, and Joe sent us this treat. Dig in.


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The Besnard Lakes announce new album and stream first single

11 January 2013

Canadian indie rockers The Besnard Lakes have announced the release of their fourth full-length album entitled Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO. The follow-up to their 2010′s The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night is due out on April 2nd via Jagjaguwar.
The forthcoming record was produced, recorded and mixed by the quartet’s own founding members Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas, and mastered by Greg Calbi. Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO features guest contributions from Moonface’s Spencer Krug and Mike Bigelow, The Barr Brothers’ Sarah Page, Monica Guenter and the Fifth String Liberation Singers’ Choir.

According the issued press release, “the story of the album unfolds its introspection on the endurance of the human spirit during prophetic times as told by a spy or two, maybe more.”

Coinciding with the album’s announcement, The Besnard Lakes are previewing the first single ‘People of the Sticks’. Listen to it below.