cstrecords wrote:Godspeed You! Black Emperor (GYBE) returns with its first single LP-length release since the group's earliest days in 1997-99. 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' clocks in at a succinct 40:23 and is arguably the most focused and best-sounding recording of the band's career. Working with sound engineer Greg Norman (Electrical Audio) at studios in North Carolina and Montreal, GYBE slowly and steadily put the new album together through late 2013 and 2014, emerging with a mighty slab of superlative sonics, shot through with all the band's inimitable signposts and touchstones: huge unison riffage, savage noise/drone, oscillating overtones, guitar vs. string counterpoint, inexorable crescendos and scorched-earth transitions.
Following Godspeed's return from a long hiatus at the end of 2010 to begin playing live shows again, and with the hugely acclaimed 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! release in 2012 marking their first new release in a decade, the group continued to perform regularly on their own headlining tours (and as headliners at many leading festivals), often including a new multi-movement piece in concert over the past couple of years. Known to fans and through live show recordings by the sobriquet "Behemoth", GYBE has gradually distilled this new work down to a fastidious and uncompromising essence in the studio, with the swing-time swagger of the opening unison riff in "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'" giving way to increasing microtonal divergences and an exhilarating immersion in the harmonic power of massed amplified instruments, before collapsing into some of the most visceral and unalloyed noise/drone the band has yet committed to tape on "Lambs' Breath" and "’Asunder, Sweet'”. The album closes with "Piss Crowns Are Trebled", a classic 14-minute piece of vintage Godspeed, where ascending and descending guitar and violin melodies intertwine over gut-rattling distorted bass in 3/4 time, segueing into a pummeling four-on-the-floor series of sparkling, soaring crescendos
'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' finds Godspeed in top form; a sterling celebration of the band's awesome dialectic, where composition, emotion and 'note-choice' is inextricable from an exacting focus on tone, timbre, resonance and the sheer materiality of sound. The album is available on 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve and insert poster, on CD in a 100% recycled custom paperboard jacket, and on all manner of formats in our fractured digital marketplace.
Godspeed and Sigor Ros are in that vein where they're so good I don't really have to listen to them ever. I just picture perfect post-rock (that isn't Mogwai) and assume it sounds like that.
That soundcloud track sounds massive. Am very excite. Should listen to their 2012 record. Really wish their greater fanbase had the same sense of humor that the band does (that goes for all of the big name post-bands, actually).
D.o.S. wrote:Godspeed and Sigor Ros are in that vein where they're so good I don't really have to listen to them ever. I just picture perfect post-rock (that isn't Mogwai) and assume it sounds like that.
That soundcloud track sounds massive. Am very excite. Should listen to their 2012 record. Really wish their greater fanbase had the same sense of humor that the band does (that goes for all of the big name post-bands, actually).
i hadn't listened to the new record that much until recently and it has quickly become my favorite of theres that isn't lift your skinny fists. definitely give it a listen or 100.
Stoked on this, cant wait to hear the whoke progression fron this psychy stuff into all out noise drone. I saw then play this live and remember the melody but I dont remember anything else
I should listen to some bootlegs
D.o.S. wrote:I'm fucking stupid and no one should operate under any other premise.
Oh fuck yes, I didn't know there was a new GY!BE album coming!! How could I have missed it???? My day is officially made
Cydonia wrote: Too bad no one here is interested in talking about "gear"
BossMann73 wrote:I didn't insult it......I "curated" a "different aesthetic.".
John wrote:I love how this forum has the GDP of Switzerland in pedals but the collective value of everyone's patch cables is less than the change in my couch cushions. And I don't have a couch.
