{"id":1958,"date":"2011-09-26T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2012-04-01T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T11:15:11","slug":"besnard-lakes-a-canadian-band-inspired-by-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/besnard-lakes-a-canadian-band-inspired-by-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Besnard Lakes: A Canadian band inspired by shortwave radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebesnardlakes.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1959\" title=\"Volume-I-CD-Layout\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Volume-I-CD-Layout-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Volume-I-CD-Layout-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Volume-I-CD-Layout-1024x441.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Source: Madison.com)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDeciphered your lines from the shortwave,\u201d Jace Lasek sings on \u201cLike the Ocean, Like the Innocent,\u201d the opening track off the Canadian crew\u2019s latest album, \u201cThe Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night\u201d (Jagjaguwar).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]Even as a child, Lasek enjoyed escaping into the shadowy underbelly of Cold War-era spy stories, huddling on the front porch of his parent\u2019s home with a shortwave radio to listen to the mysterious, coded words being beamed in from all around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d be sitting on the front stoop in broad daylight on a hot summer day and I\u2019d still be scared as hell,\u201d said Lasek, who brings the Besnard Lakes to High Noon Saloon for a show on Sunday, Oct. 2. \u201cIt really resonated with me. The transmissions coming in were really eerie, and it sort of mirrors the music we\u2019re making as well. We want it to be eerie and (David) Lynch-ian, where there\u2019s this sort of grotesque beauty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Madison.com\" href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/article_c0d1f008-c535-5c00-9c56-ba040d9801a4.html#ixzz1Z67PxuAk\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article and interview at Madison.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Besnard Lakes video for &#8220;Albatross&#8221; from their Jagjaguwar release The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night. The opening scene says it all:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RXB87SRv8Yg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Madison.com) \u201cDeciphered your lines from the shortwave,\u201d Jace Lasek sings on \u201cLike the Ocean, Like the Innocent,\u201d the opening track off the Canadian crew\u2019s latest album, \u201cThe Besnard Lakes are the Roaring Night\u201d (Jagjaguwar). [&#8230;]Even as a child, Lasek enjoyed escaping into the shadowy underbelly of Cold War-era spy stories, huddling on the front [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,8,442,172],"tags":[610,1027,4100,512,611,4082,1026],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-articles","category-music","category-numbers-stations","tag-besnard-lakes","tag-besnard-lakes-numbers-station","tag-music","tag-shortwave-art","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-the-besnard-lakes-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-vA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37171,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/brilliant-radio-song-by-van-morrison-in-the-days-before-rocknroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":1958,"position":0},"title":"Brilliant radio song by Van Morrison: &#8220;In The Days Before Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Roll&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"May 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who writes: After some 20 years I have rediscovered this radio song by the UK northern Irish singer Van Morrison. \"In The Days Before Rock'n'Roll\" There are some great TX station names in the song! 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