Name: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Brand: Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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CST012LP

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2012-11-05

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666561001216

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Genre GB

Post Rock

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Constellation

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band formed in 1994 in Montreal, Quebec. Originally known as Godspeed You Black Emperor!, the band later changed their name to Godspeed You! Black Emperor. They went on hiatus between 2004 and 2009. With a unique experimental sound, they specialize in instrumental music.

The band consists of Mike Moya on guitar, Efrim Menuck on guitar, Mauro Pezzente on bass, David Bryant on guitar, Thierry Amar on bass, Sophie Trudeau on violin, Aidan Girt on percussion, and Tim Herzog also on percussion.

Please note that any references to the [a=God Speed You Black Emperor!] cassette release from 1994 should be directed to the solo project of Efrim Menuck.

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This second studio album, two-disc Godspeed You! Black Emperor tour-de-force is considered something of a milestone of the post-rock age. Its influence was proven by the amount of echo-ing-their-style-bands that grew in the wake of its original release in 2000. 

Four tacks (or movements) opening 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 spiralling 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 house cleaning music.

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

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