The Besnard Lakes

Jace Lasek – singer, guitarist and producer of Canadian space cadets The Besnard Lakes – turns to his bassist, co-vocalist and wife, Olga Goreas, as the pair burst into gales of laughter. It’s been five long years since the band’s last album, A Coliseum Complex Museum, so while it’s not unreasonable to ask where the hell they’ve been for all that time, the couple happily dismiss the notion they’ve had their feet up for longer than has been necessary.

“We’ve used our time constructively,” counters Lasek. “When we finished making the last record, we did some touring and that record came out in 2016. We put out an EP [The Besnard Lakes Are The Divine Wind] in 2017 and then parted ways with our label, Jagjaguwar. At that point we were like, ‘Oh, we’ve made a bunch of records and we’ve had some fun and maybe we’re done and that’s it? Let’s take a break and see which way the chips fall and we’ll see what happens.’”

“We courted