The eight-track album kicks-off in great, if understated, style with 'Disaster', a slow-core masterpiece that lies in the same bed as Low circa The Curtain Hits The Cast and Mazzy Star's unexpected hit 'Fade Into You' before triumphant trumpet calls and slow-motion garage-rock chords drag it upwards, with lulling coos of "baby c'mon" perhaps being the only thing stopping the track from breaking through the stratosphere.  Full text...

Yet another band of bombast, largesse, room-sound gone cathedral, but either way the Besnard Lakes have mastered their songcraft with this psychedelic oddity, which fits all too well with other wintry early-year indie releases.  Full text...

Incredible second album from cosmic Canadian collective  Full text...

Radio unfriendly apocalypto-rock   Full text...

One of the best albums of a young 2007.  Full text...

the Besnard Lakes may be on to something with their excavations, yet the sum total is not so distinctively decades old as to exclude it from the here and now.   Full text...