The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse

Pitchfork 8.2/10 The Dark Horse shares that album's deliberate sense of pacing, precious attention to detail and hermetic sound-world atmosphere; the difference here is that almost every song builds to a crucial moment where the Besnards bravely step out of the shadows, and in the process, transform from being a merely good band to a great one.

Pop Matters 8/10 The second album from Montreal band the Besnard Lakes is really good -- a huge whirl of epic rock that rewards patience with melodies of equal grandeur...