Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND! (1 Viewer)

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AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15, 2012:
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR -
'ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND!
CST081 - 180gLP + 7" / CD / DL

CONSTELLATION


We are proud to announce the first new recordings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor in a decade.


It's been a full decade since the release of Yanqui U.X.O., Godspeed's last album. Never a band to care for conventional industry wisdom, Yanqui was released with no publicity or press availability, no marketing plans, no cross-promotions or brand synergies, driven by word-of-mouth from a passionate and committed fanbase galvanized by the group's sonic vision and its dedication to unmediated, unsullied musical communication.

To suggest that such simple principles and goals have become harder to maintain and enact a decade later is an understatement. For all the contents and discontents – for all the "content" – of our present cultural moment, the very idea of circumventing the glare of exposure or the careful plotting of media cycles and identity management appears futile.

But Godspeed is looking to try all the same. The band wants people to care about this new album, without telling people they should. They want people to experience the thrill of anonymous and uncalculated transmission, knowing full well that these days, anti-strategy risks being tagged as a strategy, non-marketing framed as its opposite, and deeply held principles they consider fundamental to health as likely to be interpreted as just another form of stealth.

The band has been blazing its own path again since 2010, regrouping as the same self-managed collective entity it has been from the outset, making appearances at a small clutch of music festivals, and otherwise touring its own shows. It's been a bit disorienting to have them back, but mostly it has felt overwhelmingly right, honest and good.

We also think they have made a new record that maintains if not exceeds the standards of their previous work – a high bar, many would agree. GYBE picked up right where they left off and after almost two years of post-hiatus practicing, playing and touring, Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! delivers two mighty sides of music that the band had been working up prior to their 2003 hiatus, which they have now shaped into something definitively stunning, immersive and utterly true to their legacy. Two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music
previously known to fans as “Albanian” and “Gamelan”, now properly titled as “MLADIC” and “WE DRIFT LIKE WORRIED FIRE” respectively and two six-and-a-half minute drones (stitched into the album sequence on CD; cut separately on their own 7″ for the LP version). Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! provides soaring, shining proof of the band’s powerful return to form. The future looks dark indeed, but on the evidence of this new recording, Godspeed appears wholly committed to staring it down, channeling it, and fighting for some rays of sound (and flickers of light) that feel hopeful and true. GYBE have offered up a fifth album that is absolutely as vital, virulent, honest and heavy as anything in their discography.

We don’t have much time for mythology, but we’d be lying if we said the return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2010 didn’t signify a whole lot to us as a marker from which to look back on the past decade, to reflect on what’s been gained or lost within the confines of independent music culture and what’s been gained or lost in the socio-political landscape writ large. Godspeed’s music will do that to you. It is music that bears witness to, channels and transforms this predominantly terrible, infuriating, venal and nihilistically sad story we’re all living, sharing, resisting, protesting, deconstructing and trying to change for the better. GYBE once again provide a uniquely moving and compelling soundtrack for these acts of analysis, defiance and ascension.



GYBE will be performing two dates in the UK at London's Kentish Town Forum on 4th and 5th of November. You can find more information on the Constellation website.

Truly, thanks for being open to hearing it.
 
Here's the full tour:
0-01 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
10-02 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
10-03 Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
10-04 Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle
10-05 Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre
10-06 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
10-07 New Orleans, LA - Tipitinas
10-09 Austin, TX - The Mohawk
10-10 Austin, TX - The Mohawk
10-11 Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre
10-12 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
10-13 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
10-14 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
10-15 Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
10-28 Porto, Portugal - Amplifest
10-30 Madrid, Spain - Teatro Kapital
10-31 Barcelona, Spain - Sala Apolo
11-01 Bordeaux, France - Le Rocher de Palmer
11-02 Nantes, France - Lieu Unique - Soy Festival
11-03 Lille, France - La Condition Publique
11-04-05 London, England - Kentish Town Forum
11-07 Brussels, Belgium - Cirque Royal
11-08-09 Berlin, Germany - SO36
11-10 Dresden, Germany - Reithalle
11-11 Prague, Czech Republic - Lucerna Music
11-12 Vienna, Austria - Arena
11-14 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Kino Siska
11-15 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik
11-16 Bern, Switzerland - Dachstock Reitschule
02-13 Brisbane, Australia - The Tivoli Theatre
02-14 Sydney, Australia - The Enmore
02-15 Melbourne, Australia - Forum Melbourne
02-16 Alton, Australia - ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror


There's time either side of the european tour, but i don't think they'll be coming over
 
i'll always have my sir henry's supported by flypanam gig to remember! worra gig.

what a night, and to think the promoter (Allegedly) turned down a second support act for another £200, some band called Sugar Rose or something like that. wonder what happened them
 
I saw that tour in London at the Festival Hall and yep Sigur Ros were bottom of the bill.
 
what a night, and to think the promoter (Allegedly) turned down a second support act for another £200, some band called Sugar Rose or something like that. wonder what happened them

He made the right call there
 

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