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    Dec 10, 2020 3 minutes
    INTERVIEW: LOUIS PATTISON

    Five years have passed since The Besnard Lakes’ last album. What’s been going on in this time?

    In something like 2016, 2017, we parted ways with our label, Jagjaguwar, who we’d been with for a long time. We started making an album. But we decided to take a long look at everything, and that was our moment to be, like: “Well, we’ve had a good run.” We’re not young any more, and music’s for young people [] – I think, anyway. Maybe we said everything we needed to

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