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  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Luciferian Towers' - Cargo Records UK

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    Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Luciferian Towers'

    £11.99

    Luciferian Towers is a heavyweight 180gram audiophile pressing from Optimal (Germany) and comes in a gatefold jacket printed on uncoated paperboard with a printed inner dust sleeve and a 24"x24" pull-out poster that re-caps all four of the artwork panels created by Godspeed You! Black Emperor for the gatefold jacket. Also includes a DL card for 320kbps MP3 album.

    This, this long-playing record, a thing we made in the midst of communal mess, raising dogs and children. eyes up and filled with dreadful joy - we aimed for wrong notes that explode, a quiet muttering amplified heavenward. we recorded it all in a burning motorboat.

    (context as follows:)

    1. UNDOING A LUCIFERIAN TOWERS - look at that f**king skyline! big lazy money writ in dull marble obelisks! imagine all those buildings much later on, hollowed out and stripped bare of wires and glass, listen- the wind is whistling through all 3,000 of its burning window-holes!

    2. BOSSES HANG - labor, alienated from the wealth it creates, so that holy cow, most of us live precariously! kicking at it, but barely hanging on! also - the proud illuminations of our shortened lives! also - more of us than them! also - what we need now is shovels, wells, and barricades!

    3. FAM / FAMINE - how they kill us = absentee landlord, burning high-rise. the loud panics of child-policemen and their exploding trigger-hands. with the dull edge of an arbitrary meritocracy. neglect, cancer maps, drone strike, famine. the forest is burning and soon they'll hunt us like wolves.

    4. ANTHEM FOR NO STATE - kanada, emptied of its minerals and dirty oil. emptied of its trees and water. a crippled thing, drowning in a puddle, covered in ants. the ocean doesn't give a sh*t because it knows it's dying too.


    Finally and in conclusion; The 'luciferian towers' L.P. was informed by the following grand demands:
    + an end to foreign invasions
    + an end to borders
    + the total dismantling of the prison-industrial complex
    + healthcare, housing, food and water acknowledged as an inalienable human right
    + the expert f**kers who broke this world never get to speak again


    much love to all the other lost and wondering ones,
    xoxoxox god's pee / montréal / 4 juillet, 2017

    Tracklisting:
    1. Undoing A Luciferian Towera
    2. Bosses Hang
    3. Fam/Famine
    4. Anthem For No State

    Release Date: 22/09/2017
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  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' - Cargo Records UK

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    Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress'

    £11.99

    180g LP In Gatefold Jacket Includes Art Print Poster + DL Coupon.

    Godspeed You! Black Emperor (GYBE) returns with its first single LP-length release since the group's earliest days in 1997-99. Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress'clocks in at a succinct 40 minutes and is arguably the most focused and best sounding recording of the band's career. 

    'If Godspeed around the turn of the millennium felt like a band of the moment, now, in a time of rapid cultural turnover and bite-sized music consumption, they feel out of step in a very necessary way.' - PITCHFORK

    'This Montreal collective still sound like nothing else - ¦The Godspeed ethos of wordlessly eliciting universal truths remains as devastatingly effective as ever.' - THE GUARDIAN

    Working with sound engineer Greg Norman (Electrical Audio) at studios in North Carolina and Montréal, GYBE slowly and steadily put the new album together through late 2013 and 2014, emerging with a mighty slab of superlative sonics, shot through with all the band's inimitable signposts and touchstones: huge unison riffage, savage noise/drone, oscillating overtones, guitar vs. string counterpoint, inexorable crescendos and scorchedearth transitions.

    Following Godspeed's return from a long hiatus at the end of 2010 to begin playing live shows again, and with the hugely acclaimed Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! release in 2012 marking their first new release in a decade, the group continued to perform regularly on their own headlining tours (and as headliners at many leading festivals), often including a new multi-movement piece in concert over the past couple of years.

    Known to fans and through live show recordings by the sobriquet 'Behemoth', GYBE has gradually distilled this new work down to a fastidious and uncompromising essence in the studio, with the swing-time swagger of the opening unison riff in 'Peasantry or Light! Inside of Light!'' giving way to increasing microtonal divergences and an exhilarating immersion in the harmonic power of massed amplified instruments, before collapsing into some of the most visceral and unalloyed noise/drone the band has yet committed to tape on 'Lambs'Breath' and 'Asunder, Sweet'.

    The album closes with 'Piss Crowns Are Trebled', a 14-minute piece of vintage Godspeed, where ascending and descending guitar and violin melodies intertwine over gut-rattling distorted bass in 3/4 time, segueing into a pummeling four-on-the-floor series of sparkling, soaring crescendos.

    Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress'finds Godspeed in top form; a sterling celebration of the band's awesome dialectic, where composition, emotion and note-choice'is inextricable from an exacting focus on tone, timbre, resonance and the sheer materiality of sound.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Peasantry or Light! Inside of Light!'
    2. Lambs' Breath
    3. Asunder, Sweet
    4. Piss Crowns Are Trebled
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  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven' - Cargo Records UK

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    Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven'

    £26.99

    After 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 (F#A#ˆž).

    Storm
    1. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Like Antennas To Heaven...
    2. Gathering Storm / Il Pleut Ãmourir [+Clatters Like Worry]
    3. "Welcome To Barco AM/PM..." [L.A.X.; 5/14/00]
    4. Cancer Towers On Holy Road Hi-Way

    Static
    1. Terrible Canyons Of Static
    2. Atomic Clock.
    3. Chart #3
    4. World Police And Friendly Fire
    5. [...+The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now]

    Sleep
    1. Murray Ostril: "...They Don't Sleep Anymore On The Beach..."
    2. Monheim
    3. Broken Windows, Locks Of Love Pt. III. / 3rd Part

    Antennas To Heaven...
    1. Moya Sings "Baby-O"...
    2. Edgyswingsetacid
    3. [Glockenspiel Duet Recorded On A Campsite In Rhinebeck, N.Y.]
    4. "Attention...Mon Ami...Fa-Lala-Lala-La-La..." [55-St.Laurent]
    5. She Dreamt She Was A Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone In An Empty Field
    6. Deathkamp Drone
    7. [Antennas To Heaven...]

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  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend' - Cargo Records UK

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    Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend'

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    LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a tipped-on heavyweight gatefold jacket printed in full-colour process plus a spot metallic ink and spot matte varnish. LP dust sleeve is also 4-colour print.

    Package includes a 7 inch in printed dust sleeve (same audio appears in a different sequence on the CD) and a 12"x 48" pull-out poster (printed full colour on both sides) featuring a collage of film stills specially-photographed and captured from the GYBE live 16mm projections.

    A decade has passed since the release of Yanqui U.X.O., the last album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Never a band to pay heed to industry wisdom, Yanqui was released shortly before xmas 2002 with little publicity, no press availability, no marketing plans, cross-promotions or brand synergies, adorned with now infamous back cover artwork diagramming the links between major record labels and the military-industrial complex. Like all GYBE albums, this one did just fine and 'found it's audience': a passionate and committed fanbase galvanized by the group's sonic vision and its dedication to unmediated, unsullied musical communication.

    That such simple principles and goals have become harder to maintain and enact a decade later is an understatement. For all the contents and discontents ' for all the content' of our present cultural moment, the idea of circumventing the glare of exposure or side-stepping the careful plotting of media cycles and identity management seems profoundly illadvised, if not futile. But Godspeed is looking to try all the same.

    The band wants people to encounter and care about this new album, without telling people they should. They seek to preserve the thrill of anonymous and uncalculated transmission, knowing full well that these days, anti-strategy risks being tagged as a strategy, non-marketing framed as its opposite, and deeply held principles they consider fundamental to health as likely to be interpreted as just another form of stealth.

    The band has been carving its own path again since 2010, regrouping as the same self-managed collective entity it has been from the outset, making appearances at a tiny clutch of music festivals, and otherwise just touring its own shows. It's been a disorienting time to resurface, but it has felt overwhelmingly right, honest and good.

    We think Godspeed has made a new record that maintains if not exceeds the standards of their previous work ' a high bar, many would agree. GYBE picked up right where they left off, and after almost two years of practicing, playing and touring, 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! Delivers two mighty sides of music (bookended by two new drones) that the band had been working up prior to their 2003 hiatus, which they have now shaped into something definitively stunning, immersive and utterly true to their legacy.

    The future looks dark indeed, but on the evidence of this new recording, Godspeed appears wholly committed to staring it down, channeling it, and fighting for some rays of sound (and flickers of light) that feel righteous, unflinching, hopeful and pure.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Mladic
    2. We Drift Like Worried Fire
    3. Their Helicopters' Sing
    4. Strung Like Lights At Thee Printemps Erable

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  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada E.P.' - Cargo Records UK

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    Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada E.P.'

    £18.99

    Second vinyl-only release from Godspeed contains two long songs, and sets the bar for the sprawling compositions that would characterise the group in the years to follow.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Moya

    Side B:
    2. BBF3

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  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Yanqui U. X. O.' - Cargo Records UK

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    Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Yanqui U. X. O.'

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    Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Yanqui U. X. O.'

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    U.X.O. is unexploded ordnance is landmines is cluster bombs. Yanqui is post-colonial imperialism is international police state is multinational corporate oligarchy. Godspeed You! Black Emperor is complicit is guilty is resisting.

    The new album is just raw, angry, dissonant, epic instrumental rock. Recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago and mixed by Howard Bilerman and Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the original Hotel2Tango in Montreal.

    Side A:
    1. 09-15-00

    Side B:
    1. Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls.

    Side C:
    1. Motherfucker = Redeemer

    Side D:
    1. Motherfucker = Redeemer
    2. Untitled
    3. UntitledX

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