With no vocals (the closest they get is spoken word samples) God Speed You Black Emperor ... more
let the music speak for itself. The two CDs which make up Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven divide into four compositions (each about 20 minutes long)...
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Advantages: Experimental, groundbreaking, indie-orchestral fusion Disadvantages: Very unusual.
GodspeedYouBlackEmperor are a musical ensemble/group from Canada, and as Radarmaker writes in a previous opinion, they have unusual social habits and a preference for communication by email.
This two track EP is a real gem, developing their groundbreaking use of traditional orchestral instruments and some of the more emotive themes in recent indie music. I can think of no real comparison for this band. Perhaps if you were to take the darkness and emotion of some of the more way out Radiohead tracks, or maybe a band like Sigur Ros, you may be a little way to a comparison. Maybe depressed indie trip-hop would be a better description. Yet their experimental use of instruments smacks of the innovation of Hendix and co, or even a more tuneful version of Provokiev's unique 'Symphony for the victims of Hiroshima'.
Both tracks start ...
Advantages: one of the greatest bands in the world. Disadvantages: 30 minute songs may annoy some people.
a statement or a meaning to such music as its beauty and the emotion pouring out of the instruments is reason enough to believe in.
GodspeedYouBlackEmperor have recorded 3 albums and one EP under the Godspeed moniker, although many side projects do exist. Bands such as esmerine and a silver mout zion feature members of Godspeed.
F#A#(infinity symbol) was Godspeeds first album. It originally comprised of 2 tracks, ?Dead Flag Blues? and ?East Hastings? (which was used in the film, 28 Days Later.) F#A# was reissued by the Canadian label Kranky. The album was given a bonus track ?Providence? and was released globally.
Slow riot for new zero kanada was godspeedyoublackemperors first globally released EP, lift your skinnyfists like antennastoheaven was their second album and Yanqui U.X.O their third .
the first song on F ...
Advantages: Beautifully crafted music that can challenge and move Disadvantages: sometimes they lose themselves
GodspeedYou! BlackEmperor, hailing from Montreal, are a curious band; brilliant and bland by turns. This may sound an odd statement but I find it?s true. Yanqui UXO is brilliant. I mean from the first moment brilliant. The whole album, consisting of 3 mammoth tracks, are just sublime. The album is a work of genius; I?m not kidding. Every note, every inflection and sound is taut with emotion. Though the tracks last 20 minutes (approx) apiece they?re flawless, magnificent pieces of music. I?ve sat at my desk at work while listening to this and wanted to cry so much that I was amazed that I didn?t. It?s stunningly powerful and almost unbearable emotive.
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Product details
Title
Levez Vos Skinny Fists Commes Antennas To Heaven
Performer
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Genre
Rock & Pop
Sub Genre
Post Rock
Release Date
09/10/2000
Original Release Year
2000
Label / Distributor
Kranky / SRD; F-Minor
Producer
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Pieces in Set
2
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
718751972827
Catalogue Number
KRK 43D
Additional notes
Album Notes
This two-disc Godspeed You Black Emperor tour de force is considered something of a milestone of the post-rock age. The first disc opens with slowly drifting ambient droning, which gradually begets mournful strings and a distant, pitch-shifted evangelical sermon before an increasingly ominous thudding rock beat, guitars, glockenspiel, distortion, and bass come spiraling in to break things up for an ever-tightening crescendo. The following piece, "Static," is marked by the early arrival of a hauntingly sad melody (yes, an actual melody), followed by slowly accelerating beats and the ghost of a dying bagpipe--one of Emperor's truly majestic moments--which later segues into shopping announcements and more treated distortion. The second disc starts off with a sample of an old man reminiscing about the long-lost glory days of Coney Island. The music coasts on through the ashes of time from there, drifting with swooping guitars that sound like Yma Sumac vocals, building into crescendo after crescendo, with drums increasing, pounding, and expiring. The last track kicks off with some bluesy folk crooning that then dissolves into an evaporating haze of strings and guitars. By turns operatic, rocked-out, and mournfully apocalyptic, ANTENNAS conjures deep emotions, landscapes, and even socio-political commentary, and some might sincerely argue that it also makes wonderful housecleaning music.
Album Reviews
Q (7/01, p.87) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time". Magnet (1-2/01, p.45) - Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000" - "...The music on this double album is very nearly larger than life..." NME (12/30/00, p.78) - Ranked #16 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year". Spin (12/00, pp.220-222) - 8 out of 10 - "...An emotionally stirring achievement....camping out around a couple of notes, chugging leisurely...toward a cacophonous climax..." Q (12/00, p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Orchestral rock elegies...laced with glockenspiels and violins, and bolstered by thunderous drums and scalding guitars....compelling..." The Wire (10/00, p.66) - "...[They] disperse through snippets of Coney Island nostalgia, a shopgirl peptalk, an infirm preacher and an ill-tempered, indeterminate buzz drowning in poorly tuned radio static...The improvising...falling within the beat parameters..." Muzik (11/00, p.121) - 3 out of 5 - "...Impressively ambitious and stupefyingly pompous, it's the perfect antidote to such lickspittle reactionary fripperies as fun or sex." Magnet (1-2/01, pp.90,92) - "...This isn't your father's prog....An exquisitely constructed sound with a sharp punk edge and an anarchist's ear for chaos. High-concept in a Moby kind of way..." NME (10/14/00, p.40) - 9 out of 10 - "...Extraordinarily powerful and beautiful music....It's a world where ever-spiraling crescendos are detonated by 9 musicians..." CMJ (10/30/00, p.5) - "...Evokes thundering waves, sky-shattering storms and other preternatual events of Biblical proportions..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven/Gathering Storm
2.
Terrible Canyons Of Static/Atomic Clock/Chart #3/World Polic
Titles on disc 2
1.
Murray Ostril: They Don't Sleep Anymore On The Beach/Mo nhei
2.
Moya Sing 'Baby O'/Edgy Swingset Acid/Glockenspiel Duet Reco
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