{"id":10205,"date":"2016-03-09T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T05:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10205"},"modified":"2016-01-27T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:55:40","slug":"album-mini-review-the-besnard-lakes-a-coliseum-complex-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/album-mini-review-the-besnard-lakes-a-coliseum-complex-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: The Besnard Lakes &#8212; A Coliseum Complex Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10206\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/besnard_lakes.jpg\" alt=\"besnard_lakes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/besnard_lakes.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/besnard_lakes-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/besnard_lakes-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01615DE7S&amp;asins=B01615DE7S&amp;linkId=R467JUB5JWTCKJYP&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File Next to: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/16\/flaming-lips-the-sound-of-success\/\">Flaming Lips<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/04\/the-polyphonic-spree-fragile-army-reinforcements-of-hope\/\">Polyphonic Spree<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Rain Parade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Long song titles, albums with epic names, and a gauzy space-rock vibe are the hallmarks of this Montr\u00e9al group, newly expanded to a six-piece. They were last heard from on a 2015 EP, <i>Golden Lion<\/i>; only its title track is repeated on <i>A Coliseum Complex Museum<\/i>. The group&#8217;s fifth album finds them continuing to hone and refine their impressionistic sonic approach. That effort does result in a slight lack of variety; put another way, if you like album opener \u201cThe Bray Road Beast,\u201d you&#8217;ll dig the seven tunes that follow it. Like label mates <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/17\/featureinterview-black-mountain\/\">Black Mountain<\/a><\/strong>, they craft a sound that&#8217;s equal parts reserved distance and a swirling, psychedelic stew. Creaky, slightly-out of tune <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/25\/the-bigelf-interview-pay-no-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-mellotron\/\">Mellotrons<\/a> (are there other kinds?) compete with chugging rhythms that evoke both 80s paisley underground and <i>Yellow Submarine<\/i>-era <strong>Beatles<\/strong> are their wide-screen, technicolor peak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Flaming Lips, Polyphonic Spree, Rain Parade Long song titles, albums with epic names, and a gauzy space-rock vibe are the hallmarks of this Montr\u00e9al group, newly expanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,57,62],"tags":[2619],"class_list":["post-10205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-psych","category-rawk","tag-besnard-lakes","cat-49-id","cat-57-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10209,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions\/10209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}