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| | | kranky (usa) #krank 043 cd godspeed you! black emperor “lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven!” double compact disc set lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven...
gathering storm
[l.a.x.; 5/14/00]
cancer towers on holy road hi-way terrible canyons of static
atomic clock.
chart #3
world police and friendly fire
[...+the buildings they are sleeping now] murray ostril: "...they don't sleep anymore on the beach..."
monheim
broken windows, locks of love pt. iii. / 3rd part - antennas to heaven (18:57)
moya sings "baby-o"...
edgyswingsetacid
[glockenspiel duet recorded on a campsite in rhinebeck, n.y.]
"attention...mon ami...fa-lala-lala-la-la..." [55-st.laurent]
she dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
deathkamp drone
[antennas to heaven...] | during the late 90s i avoided godspeed, not unlike a healthy person avoids the plague... chalk this behavoir up to a built in mechanism that sort of makes my brain shut down for a few years re: any one movement, artist, record, etc... after one too many made me aware of how “fresh & new™” it was (recently, see: mia, grime, bloc party, dfa, etc...) - not that i think there shouldn’t be a grand idea from the underground that we can all bond over, it’s just that i hate to think that publicity agents and pr firms are doing their jobs so well that we all don’t even realize when we’ve all been “sold” on something, more or less against our will. and as such, i ignore any band that fits this bill, at least while the magazine articles are still coming with frightening regularity, regardless of their cultural relevance in relation to record releases...
which isn’t to say that this was the case with gy!be here re: the press (in fact quite the opposite, i don’t think they’ve ever done an interview), just that i know more than 20 people who don’t own a single rock record on an independent label other than this one (or f# a#), a fact that i’ve long found suspect... no yo la tengo, no pavement, nothing. so i waited until earlier this year (2005), a ways after their critical and commercial successes somewhat died down a bit (at least regarding lip service), to inspect their oeuvre, and that of their label constellation.
well... i was wrong. very wrong. this is really a damn great rock record, atmospheric, and even while it’s tacitly political, i can’t glean from the content just how so (good to know that it’s there though.) and as much i’ve found the use of long, found spoken texts in the past to be contrived and often offputting, it really does create a “cinema pour l’oreille” aura around the whole thing. it makes perfect sense that so many people would latch on to this unique & frankly pretty damn powerful music.
so, take it from someone who consciouslly missed the launched-boat all those years back... this is something you really should hear, especially if similar mechanism(s) have kept you at bay... |
| | artist: godspeed you black emperor!
title: lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
catalog #: krank043
formats available: dcd
release date: november 8, 2000
it's not unreasonable to say that the montreal group godspeed you black emperor! have been one of the most highly feted groups around. long awaited would be an understatement in regard to this album. appropriately titled, lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven was recorded at chemical sounds in toronto, with 4 track snippets and field recordings added in montreal.
after months of touring the band is at the peak of its powers. they've spread an audio net out across the continent, recording the static on the radio, the random airwave proselytizing and the corporate spokesvoice of the service station that are the companions of the long distance driver. whether it's rickety piano melody, the gentle foreplay of strings, the roil of guitars and drums, or a reminscence about sleeping on the beach at coney island, godspeed you black emperor! work on the smallest and grandest of scales [often simultaneously].
the devotion the band has inspired is not only well deserved, but continues to spread. lift... ups the ante with more power [especially rhythmically] honed to perfect by the band's near constant touring. nearly two years after the recording of the slow riot for new zero kanada the band's studio skills have sharpened, bringing the guitars to a howl and the drums to a rumble. the two cds work well as discrete units or as one extended work. |
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