Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Classic or Dud?

mogwai is emo for the unwashed & inarticulate, not a good exemplar to use when listening to gybe.

jumpskins it is their second-shortest released song and also their finest hours, please give it the patience you'd give two or three oasis songs

lololol @ 'finest hours', apt

haven't listened in a long time, but i still like the strange space of the first album best, the dreamlike flow from conversations to tunes, to field recordings, it was tactile and mysterious. static>steve albini

first album is awesome. lift yr skinny fists and new zero kanada are amazingly overrated

final album is hulking wrathful beast of titanic rock and roll vengeance and it doesn't fuck with field recordings because it is classical fucking music

it's dressed up as classical music

But there's strings and things, it's clearly classical.

Also, less than a month to ATP!!!!

less than a month to ATP!!!!

i looked at the lineup again this morning and oh man i am SO EXCITED

Enjoy your incessant crescendos.

i will enjoy each one more than the last

Met a kid at the Pavement concert who got an ATP tattoo right on his arm... he said his biggest dissapointment with it is that more people recognized it as adenosine tripohsphate, which is basically a chemical reaction that oversees how you process energy. Personally I thought it was terrible tattoo (forever visibly marked on your arm = that one time i went to an art-rock concert?), but ur body is urs, I guess.

stage times: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/godspeednightmare/news/1011291052.php
info on the guests Oneida will have at the Ocropolis: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/godspeednightmare/news/1011291514.php

getting excited now.

Managed to snag some of the last tickets for the first show in MTL - not a super-fun morning, though the 30-40 people behind me had a considerably worse time.

lol i keep forgetting about this, it's still like a quarter-year to go until the new york dates

Yeah I got some MTL tickets too, but trying not to think about it much. End of April seems like a lifetime away with a long cold winter in between.

Very pleased with the relative lack of clashes on the timetable. Nice scheduling. Thanks!

so who else went to one of these shows

i saw em last night, showed up just as they started but lucked out & joined a parade off ppl who muscled to the front & then once i got tired and had to pee got lucky and found seats on the mezzanine. found it really profoundly overwhelming in a pretty great way, & just their presence and the location so majestic

if anyone's seen them before, do they not usually speak ever? i saw a silver mt zion a couple years ago & they were cracking jokes and talking to the audience between every song basically & in a really hilarious way, which i missed last night

was really underwhelmed at the nyc church show, the place was way too huge, lost intimacy, same light show (which was sort of draining and repetetive). alas.

if anyone's seen them before, do they not usually speak ever? i saw a silver mt zion a couple years ago & they were cracking jokes and talking to the audience between every song basically & in a really hilarious way, which i missed last night

yeah that's Efrim's style in ASMZ mode, he's a very funny guy. but you're right, neither he nor any of the others ever speak to the audience as gy!be

Saw them last Friday, it was a great show, but yeah no talking at all. Was a bit draining standing near the front, but we couldn't find seats in the mezzanine. This was at the Corona and it is pitch black up there when the show is on.

Working on a new album

Seeing them again, again, again, again, again tonight!

Then off down to London at 5am for I'll Be Your Mirror!

It's going to be an epic weekend!

Or perhaps...

it is going! to be an epic weekend

Met a kid at the Pavement concert who got an ATP tattoo right on his arm... he said his biggest dissapointment with it is that more people recognized it as adenosine tripohsphate, which is basically a chemical reaction that oversees how you process energy. Personally I thought it was terrible tattoo (forever visibly marked on your arm = that one time i went to an art-rock concert?), but ur body is urs, I guess.

― Good news, everyone! (kelpolaris), Saturday, 20 November 2010 17:30 (8 months ago) Bookmark

all of the people who recognise it as that are way, way cooler than the all tomorrow's parties people ):

I've mused on a gy!be-related tattoo for some time...

my brother is putting on a godspeed show! will wonders never cease?

https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/109936032482022/

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these guys were massive at atp. first time i saw them. wish their records were remotely like their live show but then again i don't know how that'd translate to record exactly

i think the records are more than remotely like their live show

maybe i just want more heaving two note drones, less pretty guitar figures

fewer*

their albums are like movies that you would go to see once. and maybe leave halfway through.

'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!

I always thought of this band as a swans or glenn branca for indie people but I still like GY!BE so this is great news. all this good rock music coming out this year... it's crazy.

predictions: endless crescendos + drum-machine

I am spectacularly excited!

someone in our office has heard this and says it's amazing and up there with the old stuff - he's a massive uberfan so take that with a pinch of salt but i'm looking forward to it.

It *is* the old stuff, though, right? The two long tracks are about a decade old, I think.

Yeah, they were doing them at live shows before Yanqui UXO came out.

(feel free to visualize urgent humping if you read this) i'm pretty pumped for this, although the things i appreciate about their musical output now are so different than what they were back in their heyday circa 2001. i used to be all about the buildup and the climax but now i find more pleasure in the meandering plateau passages.

its erm around

Hard to judge on first listens, but I'm relieved that it's not full of spoken word samples, anyway.

that was also what made the last one great as well, they had p much ditched the samples by then

seeing them tomorrow, happy to get a copy of this before everyone else

fuck me, this is awesome!

GYBE gives in and finally just cribs their album titles from Dr. Bronner labels.

lol

the best gybe record, easy