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 it's 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 - Canada, emptied of it's minerals and dirty oil. Emptied of it's 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.
J**Y
Hmmmm
I’m changing this review cuz I don’t think it was fair before ... Yeah some of my criticisms were real , but I decided to keep it and listened more and now enjoy it to some extent .... but I’ll still maintain that with maturity in life , trauma, loss ... and mixed with joy as you live on .... u don’t want to really , or predominantly , hear loud dissonance and repetitive angst , a little more change Up here and there is what I think also ..., it’s tension and can honestly make u feel uncomfortable I guess .. yet I’m a long time fan of his work with Zion etc .... but they can focus on refined tension with sorrow full release is what I think,?, where it goes into epic triumph and joy ? ... which is what they do !!! But just more peace , cuz I’m getting old , and besides it’s timeless and archetypal universal style to do , in my objective opinion of course .. I know it all !!! Anyhow , that’s I think ...
G**E
Good album if you like these guys as I have ...
Good album if you like these guys as I have for 20 years or so. Their performance 2 years ago in a church in Los Angeles was one of the the top 5 concerts I've been to, and I've been to a quite a few in the last 40 years. And check out this Russian band Mooncake on YouTube.
C**E
Like most of their work
Like most of their work, only 1-2 tracks are worthwhile per album, and track 2 is just so. Perhaps the primary writer finally got laid, or saw some inspirational porn, but track 2 is the Godspeed you fell in love with...their best song in several years.
M**K
Four Stars
The great and powerful towers, this is drone\, not drone magic.
N**K
Intense
If you already love this band like I do, you will enjoy this album. If you have not listened to them before, start with earlier material.
J**F
Five Stars
Another powerful release from this Canadian collective.
M**Y
Glad this band is making music again
Another strong release from Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
C**N
Five Stars
great album
M**E
Excellent.
Since returning from their 10 year hiatus, GY!BE's last two albums have been brilliant in places but ultimately a little bit disappointing in comparison to what went before.Lucifarian Towers sees less of the drone/white noise laiden tracks and a bigger emphasis on grabbing a melody and exploring the limits of where they can take it.Whilst maybe not hitting quite the same heights that F#A# and Lift Yr Skinny Fists reach in places, it is probably their most consistent album and certainly their best since Skinny Fists.
M**M
Musically a fantastic album You can really feel how they have progressed there talents BUY THE ALBUM it’s worth every penny
Love the way this album is put together two songs in three parts each a part of each other it feels like Godspeed are concentrating more on the music than the anarchy in this album don’t get me wrong the anarchy and the messages in the music is a huge part of Godspeed that make them amazing and insightful. Take you on a journey musically from start to finish mixing the messages with the music blended wonderfully . I can’t stop listening to bosses hang you can really feel how they have progressed there talent I agree since raise your skinny fists musically this is a fantastic album. Just don’t expect the samples about how corrupt the government is in there previous work.
C**N
buy it
Another great album
P**E
Music for the Mindscape
Superb renditions as always - totally atmospheric soundscapes that capture light and dark in equal depth. GSYBE never fail to deliver the goods
M**O
Registrazione e missaggio approssimativi
Musicalmente, nulla da dire. Disco di grande impatto che prosegue il discorso cominciato con "don't bend Ascend, allelujah" e proseguito con "asunder" che forse è il migliore di questo trittico di questo nuovo corso dei GY!BE. Allora, perché tre stelle?Alla epicità e al pathos delle composizioni purtroppo non corrisponde una produzione all'altezza: il suono risulta scavatissimo con una sezione ritmica seppellita nelle tonnellate di distorsioni e cacofonie tipiche della band canadese. Peccato, perché invece le riprese delle chitarre sono tra le migliori incise nella discografia del gruppo.
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