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The Besnard Lakes
Volume 1

I am evangelical about my love of The Bezzies. Inappropriately so.

This is a 2012 repress. It came with a signed inner sleeve and is limited to 600 hand-numbered copies.

I eventually got a test pressing from the original 2003 release as well.

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The front cover of Volume 1 -The Besnard Lakes’ first album. It shows a night scene of an infamous funeral home that wasn’t exacting into how they conducted business. The cover is mostly dark with a couple distant streetlights vaguely visible. The funeral home itself pops off the page from the lower left of the album cover, being the only well-lit portion of the scene. It’s a boxy funeral home, sparse in appearance with either security bars or maybe glass blocks in the front window. The inner image from the gatefold carries the stark contrasts in lighting forward. The image is warm,differentiating itself from the cover. It shows a small music venue main floor lit gently by three visible chandeliers. The small stage is forward of red curtains that obscure the backstage area. On the left, a dark haired woman, standing with a cocked hip, a cigarette between two fingers. Her right arm crosses across her midsection with the hand tucked under her left elbow, looking like a halfway type of self-hug. She looks down toward the tabletop before her, and seeming past what appears to be an art print of some kind. It’s curled at the edges from being rolled, though it’s mostly flat now. To the right, across the wood plank door, a man and woman sit at a separate table. Their backs are to us so it’s not possible to determine if they are gazing at the stage (which is empty of performers, but has a drum kit front and center with neatly arranged stacks of amplifiers on either side of it). While I can’t be certain, it looks to me they’re not looking at the staff at all. I think they’re staring into the darkness stage left. The image is another combination of contrast, light and shadow. The back cover is a night time street scene with a sign reading “Motel” on the left with other undeterminable business across the street. While much better lit than the front cover, the lighting is still muted creating an overall soft vibe to the photo. Song titles are listed in the upper right corner, while the lower right corner includes information about the band using Breakglass in Montreal as well as mastering and other credits shown. In the bottom center, 3/600 is shown, denoting this is copy 3 of 600 records pressed. The writing is in silver marker A plane white record sleeve is shown with a stamp that reads: February 21 2021 BL-001 A/B The record is a still-sealed test pressing.
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 AM