Song Recommendation: “Carried it Around” by The Besnard Lakes (2025)

The Besnard Lakes have been consistently putting out beautiful records of folksy, post-rock tinged but big-hearted jams for a long time now but their most recent release, The Besnard Lakes are the Ghost Nation, might be my favorite release since 2007’s shatteringly good The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse. Wrapped around two anthemic guitar solos, the whole song bathes you in warm washes of fuzzy guitars and head-filling, jingling percussion. Members of Wolf Parade maintain that they only release “christmas or halloween songs” and I caught myself thinking about how “Carried it Around” feels like the most Christmas non-Christmas rock song I can think of and in the best way that can possibly sound.