{"title":"Godspeed You! Black Emperor","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"godspeed-you-black-emperor-lift-skinny-fists-vinyl","title":"Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Vinyl 2xLP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"full\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JMDmaUO4hno?si=kEn4f2oTSTGIH1Nh\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter two years of constant touring and near-unanimous critical acclaim, Godspeed You Black Emperor! assembled a collection of new recordings that charted the creative evolution of the band as well as its literal physical movement on the road, criss-crossing North America and Europe. Five expansive full-band compositions are framed by various field recordings, tape manipulations and ensemble pieces in a return to the narrative sonic collage techniques that marked their 1997 debut (\u003cem\u003eF#A#∞\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour seamless sides of vinyl unfold a world of aching sadness and beauty, with musical quotes ranging from heartland americana to mitteleuropa folkways, all distilled through the unique sonic filters of Godspeed’s pedal-crazy orchestral rock instrumentation. Harrowing guitars, plaintive strings, pulsing basses and explosive drums combine with glockenspiels, horns and tape drones to form an overwhelming palette of sounds, always driven by fierce melodic momentum and intense emotional resonance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGYBE! continued to paint on an impossibly large canvas, with an uncanny blend of world-weariness and naive exuberance that spoke volumes about the conflicts and contradictions permeating our political and cultural life. 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In the preceding year, the band had taken shape as a quasi-orchestral outfit involving most of the players that would go on to make three more records and tour the world many times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the first recorded document of \u003c\/span\u003eGodspeed\u003cspan\u003e as a large band and is soaring, fragile, awkward, heartbreaking stuff. \u003c\/span\u003eConstellation\u003cspan\u003e released a vinyl-only pressing of 500 copies in August 1997, with LP jackets hand made by the label, the band, and various local artisans. It has since gone through dozens of re-presses, with virtually all of the original packaging elements preserved. The opening monologue on Side One (\"Dead Flag Blues\") is taken from Incomplete Movie About Jail, an unfinished film by Efrim.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNervous, Sad, Poor...\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBleak, Uncertain, Beautiful..\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31923070238835,"sku":"CST003LP","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/products\/godspeed-you-black-emperor-f-a.png?v=1651147890"},{"product_id":"godspeed-black-emperor-g_ds-pee-states-end-vinyl","title":"Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d's Pee At State's End! 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As the heretical anarcho-punk spirit of the title implies, Godspeed harnesses some particularly raw power, spittle and grit across two riveting 20-minute side-length trajectories of noise-drenched widescreen post-rock: inexorable chug blossoms into blown-out twang, as some of the band’s most soaring, searing melodies ricochet and converge amidst violin and bassline counterpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eField recordings and roiling semi-improvised passages frame these fervent epics, and two shorter self-contained 6-minute pieces find the band at its most devastatingly beautiful, haunting and elegiac. Poignant atmospherics, noise-drenched orchestration, drone, hypnotic swingtime crescendos, inexorably-layered towers of distorted clarion sound: State’s End encapsulates every beloved facet of the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five years on, this new album is as vital, stirring, timely and implacable as any in Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s storied discography. 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