Haven't seen him solo but his between-song banter at ASMZ shows is usually great so I would say go for it.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 14 January 2019 09:53 (five years ago) link
New album April 2nd!
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
Hope it's better than the last one, which was fine but lacking inspiration. Looking forward to it anyway
― your passion oozzes from the (ultros ultros-ghali), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
Now more than ever
― flappy bird, Friday, 5 March 2021 08:33 (three years ago) link
It's out there, and it's really really good. More krautrock like than I've heard them before and the end of the third song is just about the most triumphant, uplifting music they've ever written as a band. Maybe the spirit of Conny Plank was in the studio or something, but this one's got juice. Immediately loved it on first pass, something I haven't really felt with their music since Yanqui.
― octobeard, Thursday, 1 April 2021 06:32 (two years ago) link
A Dutch national newspaper published an article about the album, which is basically a long review/description of the music.
― EvR, Thursday, 1 April 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
there's a very pink floyd moment toward the end of the first suite and it's fucking great
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 2 April 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
best record since allelujah definitely
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 2 April 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
I like the new one quite a bit. It's surprisingly uplifting (but maybe I shouldn't be so surprised).
They are selling the CD on the Bandcamp without shipping charges so I picked it up for #BandcampFriday today.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 2 April 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
I've only had a cursory listen but I'm enjoying it so far. The production is nice and crunchy. For all I love the first three records, I'm not a massive fan of the production - especially Skinny Fists.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 2 April 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
man i really love this record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 2 April 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
fuck yeah!!!! this album!!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 April 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
Gotta say I read a “premature evaluation” for this on Stereogum and thought it was an April Fools prank
― assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 3 April 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
excellent soundtrack for running errands during a global pandemic
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 3 April 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
octobeard otm upthread, that section near the end of track 3 ("cliffs' gaze" etc.) is quite a blast of overt hope!
― alpine static, Saturday, 3 April 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
surprisingly uplifting was my initial reaction too but now i think its more like accepting what they've known or predicted all along. amazing album
― gman59, Saturday, 3 April 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
^^^"this record is about all of us waiting for the end.all current forms of governance are failed.this record is about all of us waiting for the beginning,and is informed by the following demands=empty the prisonstake power from the police and give it to the neighbourhoods that they terrorise.end the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.tax the rich until they're impoverished."
― gman59, Saturday, 3 April 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
"OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN"
― alpine static, Sunday, 4 April 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
yes yes lovely sentiment and all
found the album a bit boring tbh. then put on Yanqui UXO again and it was like leaping into 3D
― imago, Sunday, 4 April 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
i listened to this and yanqui back-to-back and it reinforced how strongly i feel about the new one
the drone tracks are freaking incredible
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
I like toying with the listening order.
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
the riffs in the longer suites are both lovely and unexpected and are impeccably layered with the other elements... the drums are really good... just keep getting transfixed and blown away by this thing
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
Loving the new album and the broadcast they did the other week of Karl Lemieux & Philippe Leonard's 16mm projections was fantastic.
They just announced a raft of tour dates for early 2022. Ticket bought for the Barrowlands here.
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
i don't live there so no skin off my back but why is there not a Montreal date lol
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
Venues are all closed at the moment.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
I’m not keen on how this is mixed. It doesn’t sound good in comparison to the BCNR album. I may get over this. I hope I do.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
pomentiful, i assume they won't still be closed in 2022? or are they not even taking any bookings?
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
I thought they weren't but I checked just now and some of them clearly are, so… the plot thickens.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
looking at those dates, it seems likely to me they have something in the works for Montreal when they get back ... either a GYBE show(s) they can't announce yet, or maybe there's a festival there that summer or something. idk, that seems to often be the case when bands announce big tours w/ no hometown date.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 22:03 (two years ago) link
I didn't know this band *did* anything after Yanqui...
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
Where to start? Admit that I only really care for the first two records.
Haven't had a chance to play the new on yet, but I highly recommend the 2012 "comeback" record, 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!. That's been my favorite of the new ones, with Luciferian Towers coming in second.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
the one they put out after you stopped listening, Yanqui U.X.O., is quite good
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
Oh, I know up to Yanqui— I was still into them in 2002.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
I'll try Allelujah.
The first time I remember crying to music was the first time I heard "Storm."
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
allelujah is excellent. they played "mladic" when i saw them in 2012 before the album came out and it totally reinvigorated my interest in them
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
yeah mladic slaps
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Thursday, 8 April 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Cosigned.
In the roll-out to Allelujah I remember thinking I was going to check it out from a sense of loyalty, but that I was probably long past my need for GY!BE in my life. I was quickly proven wrong. Reception for the two following that though, seems a little more mixed. I like both of them, but there doesn't seem to be nearly as big of a consensus on either.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 April 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
While we're talking about that era, seeing them perform in Big Sur under the stars in front of maybe 200 people at a camp ground, walking to the stage from our site merely a few dozen meters away, is probably a top 3 concert experience. Aidan Girt stopping by our post show camp fire, partaking in our whisky and shit talking the band's experience playing Coachella was absolutely a topper of a memory too
― octobeard, Saturday, 10 April 2021 01:09 (two years ago) link
I don't think any music will ever make me feel the way GY!BE did when I was a teenager listening to F♯A♯∞ and Slow Riot... in the dark, but idk I listen to the new album and it's fine I guess?
― Bignefs Proportionable (seandalai), Saturday, 10 April 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
Yeah, this is great. I think this might be the best of the "comeback" records. Weird to think that they've now put out more full lengths since coming back from the hiatus than they released during the initial run.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 April 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
The revival has lasted longer than the initial run in terms of years, too.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 April 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
Not sure anything on the new one pushes my buttons quite the way Mladic does, but that’s a pretty unique thing anyway. New one is very good.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 April 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmgDLGpl9ME
― 龜, Friday, 4 February 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
For a little context
Bro holy shit. The lost Godspeed You! Black Emperor tape is now available. A random dude on 4chan dropped the full tape where there are only 33 copies of it left and how it used to be a lost media but now it's here today it's crazy. pic.twitter.com/wTmimhTFBo— Psycho (Like Limited) Lad (@LadPsycho) February 4, 2022
https://www.discogs.com/release/218865-God-Speed-You-Black-Emperor-All-Lights-Fucked-On-The-Hairy-Amp-Drooling
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
And from the notes on that Discogs page:
Jeanette Leech wrote in "Fearless: The Making Of Post-Rock" (Jawbone Press, 2017) on Page 302-303:"Menuck was 'doing this four-track thing in my house, usually at three in the morning, coming home from a bar, just doing something quickly, and then trying to turn it into something the next day'. In 1994, as 'a young man's formal experiment', Menuck self-released a cassette, in an edition of thirty-three: All Lights Fucked On The Hairy Amp Drooling.'The idea was this would be the last thing I would ever do,' Menuck says. 'A big dramatic gesture that nobody would care about. It was a private thing, let's get this out of my system, and then figure out something else to do with my life. It's pretty ragged, and there are some shared qualities with what Godspeed became, but I don't know if those similarities would be evident to anyone but those of us on the inside.' The tape was mostly just Menuck, but Mauro Pezzente also plays on a couple of tracks; the biggest difference between this material and Godspeed, Menuck says, is, 'There's singing on it. I can't really listen to it objectively, and it's not like I listen to it a lot. I think the last time I listened to it was six years ago. I think it's interesting.' Despite many hoaxes, to date the cassette hasn't been leaked on the internet or offered for sale on the open market. 'For years, I've been saying it's gonna get out there someday, and people are gonna be pretty disappointed, because it's of the time,' Menuck says.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
😮
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
reminds me of when someone found the "By Request Only" album from Ken, it's okay but way more fun as a lost media piece
― frogbs, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link