Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Canada's Godspeed You Black Emperor raise the ante on their already ambitious orchestral rock by releasing a double CD of material as their second full-length album. The group combines the drums and guitar of typical rock-band instrumentation with horns and strings to create a music built around drones and slowly evolving melodic figures. It rises and falls from delicate introductory passages to unabashed grand climaxes. Their juxtaposition of drums with violins and lush romantic tonality brings to mind Rachel's, but their compositional scale and the pounding repetitive intensity of their dynamic peaks evoke Glenn Branca's The Ascension. Although the two discs are indexed at only two 21-minute tracks each, the package includes a handy road map to the movements into which each is subdivided. The opening piece starts with five minutes of a 15-beat circular melodic pattern that is gradually embellished as the volume swells to an ecstatic roar. The release drops down to a pastoral drone that rebuilds to support an acid-etched guitar solo, which in turn yields to a unified 4/4 kraut rock pound that eventually explodes, leaving behind field recordings of public announcements mingled with wandering late-night Swell Maps piano. The other pieces use a similar set of sonic building blocks to take the listener on comparable journeys. Fans of Godspeed's previous work will be very happy, and the curious might want to hop on board as well. --Bob Bannister more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-08-2008
- Emotional overheat
In the darkening mood of the 1990s, Canada's Godspeed You Black Emperor became the most out-there voice in the music world with their combination of radical political narratives and music capable of burning the heart of a listener like...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-08-2008
- The king of crescendos
Still a high water mark for the sub-genre, the four tracks making up this double disc represents Godspeed's most ambitious, immersive audio experience yet. Though the album is not without it's bloat which some may deride as pretentious...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-22-2008
- Like a Dream
Found this at a library being sold for 50 cents. A good buy. It's like some kind of dreamscape to me, only slowed down from dreams' usual chaotivc nature and put under magnifying glass. The music seems to take me on a cosmic journy of...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-10-2007
- maybe their best
i have heard all 4 of their albums. this one has my favorite song Sleep. the last song anntenas to heaven is amazing as well. the first 2 are very nice also.sleep when performed live was in 2 pieces i think. one called monheim and one...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-08-2008
- Emotional overheat
In the darkening mood of the 1990s, Canada's Godspeed You Black Emperor became the most out-there voice in the music world with their combination of radical political narratives and music capable of burning the heart of a listener like...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-07-2007
- Long drifting soundscape
(please ignore number rating, I don't generally find them meaningful)"Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven" by Godspeed You Black Emperor is a long sequence of shifting soundscapes, mainly instrumental, but with some recorded...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-06-2007
- Greatness, interrupted.
I held off for years before buying this intriguing piece of music, only to discover that I had made a big mistake ... not in waiting so long, but in buying it whatsoever. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., once submitted this two word review of Joseph...
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