First track makes my top ten list for the year, probably, and is threatening to make me believe in these guys for the first time since Lift Yr.
Efrim's other band never did it for me, the one where the name changed like five billion times
― Raymond Cummings, Sunday, 21 October 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
also, NICKY! i didn't know you posted here man, cool
― Raymond Cummings, Sunday, 21 October 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
yah welcome to ilx
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Sunday, 21 October 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
setlist tonight in bmore-Hope DroneMladicMonheimBehemoth ?New Song ?One of the segue songs ?The Sad Mafioso― spazzmatazz, Thursday, 4 October 2012 05:20 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hope DroneMladicMonheimBehemoth ?New Song ?One of the segue songs ?The Sad Mafioso
― spazzmatazz, Thursday, 4 October 2012 05:20 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
A couple of gigs I've downloaded from either side of that have the setlist as
1. Hope Drone 2. Mladic 3. Monheim 4. Behemoth 5. The Sad Mafioso
with Behemoth as a new 45 minute long, um, behemoth.
Title probably inspired by LJ's post in 2010:
As I've often said here, GY!BE peaked with their final album - IMO it's several notches ahead of the others, and works that dynamic like a behemoth― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Saturday, 10 April 2010 00:11 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Saturday, 10 April 2010 00:11 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― onimo, Monday, 5 November 2012 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
I know Constellation doesn't have the luxury to decide who they'll sell wholesale to, but this is still hilarious: http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=26873497&parentid=APARTMENT_MUSIC
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
ha ray i just saw your message, from my birthday no less! only got turned onto ilx like four months ago
― you are my capitalism (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
* The 1st new recordings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor in a decade* Clear proof of the band's powerful return to form* Includes new versions of the tracks previously known "Albanian" & "Gamelan"* As honest & heavy as the rest of their discography* 180-gram LP pressing in tipped-on gatefold jacket* Includes 7" vinyl & a 12 x 48" poster, plus a digital download code* Constellation, 2012
― you are my capitalism (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 13 December 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
I love the second one. "No, no, seriously - they've returned to form, powerfully!" "Oh yeah? PROVE IT."
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 13 December 2012 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
The second half of "We Drift Like Worried Fire" is pretty awesome
Man this song came up on shuffle just now and kinda broke my brain again.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 June 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
Vinyl of 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend from Urban Outfitters: $32.98Vinyl of 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend from Constellation: $18.00
― Position Position, Monday, 3 June 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
Dud.
― chromecassettes, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
Playing the Barclays Center in October!
http://pitchfork.com/news/51053-nine-inch-nails-announce-massive-tour-with-godspeed-you-black-emperor/
― Position Position, Thursday, 6 June 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
watching them play to an uninterested NIN crowd as it slowly fills up the arena seating sounds horrible tbh.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 June 2013 13:08 (ten years ago) link
http://cstrecords.com/statement-from-godspeed-you-black-emperor-on-polaris/
― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
We're already making mincemeat out of them for that over on the Polaris thread.Polaris Music Prize Shortlist - 2013
― everything, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Oh. Been pretty inactive on this site of late, so I totally missed it.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
speaking of gybe, dude realizes he has a copy of their super rare demo tape, asks reddit what he should do with it, gets trolled, deletes account
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
lol @ these redditors "pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaasse upload that tape you have no idea how much their music means to me" -- get a life losers
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
godspeed is great but i'm perfectly content knowing i'm never going to hear that tape.
― marcos, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
Was listening to the stream, got to the singing part...
Perhaps this is better left unreleased and buried away.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
Is the singing kind of uncomfortable to hear in the silver mt. zion way?
― Z S, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
new album coming soon, excerpt of a track herein:
http://rock-a-rolla.com/main/?p=6212
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
There's a version of this track that's been floating around for a few years called Behemoth that's about four times as long.
That said, I really like this. GYBE! are pretty much the only post-rock band (in the circa 2000 crescendo-core sense) that I listen to any more.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
According to the release, the album basically IS "Behemoth."
― Simon H., Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
I'm excited
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
That excerpt is nice.
― jmm, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
Swans have kinda taken over the GYBE token schmindie longform art-rock slot ime. but the last album was nice, if not ~mindblowing~
― Rae Yellamo -- Throw Summ0))) (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link
I guess there's a lot more vocals in Swans than GYBE so that's kind of a weird comparison to make... just saying I wish they had the same freeform/colalge aesthetic they used to rock so successfully in the 'good old days' instead of just riding these long waves of spooky intensity
― Rae Yellamo -- Throw Summ0))) (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
album stream available on the Guardian site
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/24/godspeed-you-black-emperor-asunder-sweet-and-other-distress-album-stream
― there can be only (onimo), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 13:07 (nine years ago) link
really nice
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Thursday, 26 March 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
I have never met anyone that dislikes GYBE! Either they love them or they havn't heard of them. Am I the only one that doesn't like them?― John Smith, Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:00 AM (14 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"14 years ago" I met a girl who expressed disbelief when I told her I had heard of GYBE, but was not a fan(I have subsequently been converted. & eagerly await the new album)
― bernard snowy, Thursday, 26 March 2015 04:32 (nine years ago) link
man you sure blew it with her
― j., Thursday, 26 March 2015 04:38 (nine years ago) link
New album's not the best thing they've done, but it's the heaviest certainly. I like it quite a lot, though.
If anyone's interested there are a couple of new tracks played live here:
https://archive.org/details/gybe2015-04-07.aud.flac24
They first new track's *kinda* derivative of Asunder etc but the second one sounds pretty awesome to me, getting more of a Yanqui feel from it.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm warming up to Asunder... was initially put off because, in contrast to the 4 distinct 'pieces' on Allelujah!, none of the 4 tracks here is satisfying taken on its own, & the album as a whole seems kinda monochrome & short on ideas compared to any of their previous releases. still, I'll be damned if it doesn't suck me in and hold my attention for 45 minutes, drone interludes and all.
agree with Ultros on the heaviness too -- "Piss Crowns" sits pretty comfortably alongside the fuzzed-out Sabbath-worship of Boris's Feedbacker (another record I'm playing a lot these days)
― bernard snowy, Friday, 17 April 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
this album i do not like at all
i don't even want to listen to it again, but i'll force myself to and see if that changes anything
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 17 April 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
https://www.normanrecords.com/images/godspeed-luciferian-towers/0001.jpg
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.1. UNDOING A LUCIFERIAN TOWERS - look at that fucking 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 shit 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 fuckers who broke this world never get to speak againmuch love to all the other lost and wondering ones,xoxoxox god's pee / montréal / 4 juillet, 2017Tracklisting:1 Undoing A Luciferian Towera2 Bosses Hang3 Fam/Famine4 Anthem For No State
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.
1. UNDOING A LUCIFERIAN TOWERS - look at that fucking 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 shit 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 fuckers 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 Towera2 Bosses Hang3 Fam/Famine4 Anthem For No State
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
Release date: 22 September 2017
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
If the music is anywhere near as good as the press release this will be an absolute stormer. Prime god's pee'd antics there, I love it!
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
I've enjoyed their more modest post-reunion albums so far
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 August 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
I was thinking of bringing this up but didn't reckon anyone else gave a shit! This is probably going to be as good as their other recent stuff, not matching up to their heyday but more godspeed is always welcome imo
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 3 August 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link
New album streaming at NPR
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 14 September 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
Sounding enjoyable
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:01 (six years ago) link
New album came today and I'm really enjoying it.
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Friday, 22 September 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
"undoing a luceferian towers" is immense
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 22 September 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
It is, but I liked the last track the best.
― starving street dogs of punk rock (Odysseus), Friday, 22 September 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link
Very much business as usual, but they're a band I don't mind essentially doing the same thing over and over again. Yeah, it's good.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 23 September 2017 10:10 (six years ago) link
Efrim released a solo album last week:https://efrimmanuelmenuck.bandcamp.com/album/pissing-stars
― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 10:09 (six years ago) link
hate the industry. hate all industries. no more beers. co-owner of thee mighty "hotel2tango" recording studio. recorded good and bad bands there. a loudmouth sometimes. and can be a moody motherfucker and a total drag. stubborn. worried. out of step. ezra's father.
stubborn. worried. out of step. ezra's father.
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
Don't enjoy his Silver Mt Zion stuff at all, but really liking this
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link
This is an audiophile 180gram pressing in midnight ultra-black vinyl
lmao
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link