That fucking drone is amazing, but I see so many people talk about how much they dislike it. If it still hasn't clicked for you, come back to it at a point in your life when the sky is falling. Put some headphones on, and then play it in complete darkness. Then maybe it will finally make sense to you. The music itself never changes, but we as people do.
It wasn't easy due to the consistency of this band, but I've figured out the PROPER way to rank all the GYBE albums: 1. Personal opinion 2. Personal opinion 3. Personal opinion 4. Personal opinion 5. Personal opinion 6. Personal opinion
I listened to GY!BE back in my early twenties, got super bummed about their breakup, then kind of moved on with my life. I recently watched Under the Banner of Heaven which had East Hastings featured in one episode and it fully reignited my passion for this band, and I come back only to find they've released, like, four more albums since I stopped listening. Just as incredible and powerful. My god.
Godspeed is a band where you could choose any one of their albums at random and make a completely valid and logical argument why it's their best. These guys are so consistent, and every album has something unique and amazing in it.
That's funny. My only problem with this album is that the ambient middle section drags on for too long. I prefer it when the drone parts are shorter and more evenly distributed among tracks. The first and last track on this album, however, are great
I remember clearly the first time i heard this album was when I borrowed a friends Ipod whilst travelling Central America. I used to listen to this album while driving through the countryside of Nicaragua, Guatemala etc. I was heading to the ancient mayan site of Palenque and knew this album would compliment it. I was walking around old temples contemplating all the bloody battles over the hundreds of years and sacrifices etc. I didn't need drugs or alcohol etc, i had everything I needed. For the charging outro I just sat infront of the Temple Of The Count and took it all in. I was nearly in tears by the end and i'm honestly getting goosebumps just writing about it, it truly was one of the most powerful moments in my life.
To me this album feels like a story in 4 parts. Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light is a society recognizing impending disaster but optimistic that they will be able to stop it. Lamb's Breath is when the disaster hits and the area turns into barren wasteland. Asunder, Sweet is when they attempt to leave their desolate surroundings but in the final track they realize that everywhere else is just as barren as where they came from, so they try to rebuild and avoid the mistakes that led to the initial disaster
Whenever I decide to listen to a gybe album I do the following. 1. Make sure I won´t be disturbed for the next hour minimum. 2. Maybe smoke a little jay (though absolutely optional) 3. Turn off all the ligths and making sure to be in complete darkness. 4. pop up my headphones, press the play button and turn off the last light resource -> my computer monitor. 5. Close my eyes and enjoy.
+ppnnyyy Can't imagine to listen to this without proper speakers, wouldn't feel anything in just my head, the bones want to shake, too. 1200 watts usually do it.
It’s a rainy day, I’ve been going through Godspeed’s discography for a while. It’s 8 in the morning, and I’ve listened to all their albums except for this, Luciferian Towers, and G_d’s Pee, time to continue lying in bed and give this a listen
I don't go out much, but today (like an hour ago) I learned that this band didn't break up like I thought. The first three albums are some of my absolute favourite music of all time. Not even kidding when I say It's been FIFTEEN YEARS since I bought Yanqui UXO and I thought that was the end of it, and I was heartbroken..... AND NOW I HAVE TWO MORE ALBUMS TO LISTEN TO!!!!!! AND ANOTHER COMING OUT REAL SOON! Honestly you have no idea how much joy this brings to my heart.
I was on tour when I was the bassist of a band I won't name the first time I listened to this. In a hotel room, stoned, put my earbuds, in and had visions.
personal opinion.........top godspeed tracks are as follows.....1 slow riot.....2....getting fucked up while listening to this 'knew album'....awesome.....breathtaking.....moved to tears......somebody agree w/me please....lists are ,,,,,,
I saw these guys live last night playing this as the main portion of the show, but also played some portions from Skinny Fists(parts of Static), "'Allelujah!" (Mladic) and even "Slow Riot" (Blaise Bailey Finnegan III) which I recognized. They started off with Mladic, but extended the intro with reverb on a cello and violin for over 10 minutes, with each band member slowly stepping on stage over that time, all the while static on the projection screen behind them began to materialize into flashing scribbles spelling "hope." The show was honestly just amazingly atmospheric. I got real spooked though as they played Lamb's Breath and Asunder, Sweet from this, with distorted images of a deer and sheep in the background, flashing in their negative colors. Right now, I think they might have blended the image of that deer with the album cover here. Honestly, didn't really think too much of this album, but around that point 30:00- 33:30 in Piss Crowns when they played it, I was biting my lip because it was so fucking perfect. I think Piss Crowns might be my favorite Godspeed track. I feel like this is their heaviest album... laced with a lot of sadness and grief almost towards the end. Every GY!BE album is different, like they have different auras about them. It's impossible really to say one's the best, depends on what you're in the mood for. F#A# is truly apocalyptic on a bleak future. Skinny Fists is like a walk through an entire lifespan in an hour and a half. Yanqui UXO is that wartime depression album. I love them all deeply.
to me it's a tragedy how misunderstood this is. It's basically one long song. Individual movements, etc. The thing is, I always sort of facepalm when people say there's ''boring parts'' it's like they only wait for the noisiest moments or climaxes. That's extremely narrow minded and really discredits this incredible group. They're making pieces, not soundbites for you to easily consume. Without the quieter parts, the huge climaxes wouldn't have any context. I don't get it, but i guess it's their opinion and yada yada yada. I just think, like find another band if that's your issue. These guys are never going to be for you.
Dawson J I think it's just right :) They represent something special, they're showing an unique way. The way of what? I don't know, but I listened cliché music too, some metal, some rock.. Then Billy Talent (from Canada too, with original tunes.. I just felt something in it). Then I get started to listening to punk-rock (Bad Religion, NoFX, Rise Against), I wanted something more special, with an unique opinion and new tunes (for me). 5 years passed and now I'm here, listening GYBE (and TSMZ), opening my soul and looking at it thru my meanless body. I think it's more then a band, more then a music, and I think people that don't like it aren't prepared yet. For what? I don't know, but they are not. And I think somewhere is something more delicious that I don't understand yet just like people don't understand GYBE now. Because I'm only 22yo and the life is way fu*king long. And I'm afraid a bit. And the meaning of it all? That the phrase "these guys are never going to be for you" can be false, they could be for everyone.
Dawson J That people have different tastes is not a tragedy, it's the miracle of life! It's not narrow minded but it's highly narrow minded to expect everyone to "understand" (=like) the same music. The Jazz lover, the Opera lover and the Beethoven-Freak will think the same about "their" music... Just enjoy the music - and the miracles of life (there are so many colours out there (in the minds of people), believe me!
Ricardo Clemente i know what you mean, if people stop caring and making these devotional acts, music as a whole will most assuredly die as a result, that is why we as fans of beautiful music, now more than ever, have a responsibility to show the artists we care about and enjoy the love they need, or else they will cease to be -- end rant
Ricardo Clemente I agree. For me, buying the physical album is meant as exactly that: a compliment or sign of true fandom. That's how I show how much I like a band, by how much of their discography I own physically. Plus, there are a lot of little details and flourishes you get with the album art. I love looking at jacket designs or lyric book layouts, and adds a lot to the overall feel of an album.
I think when first hearing any of their albums, any person is gonna dismiss it as pretentious drivel if not in a patient enough mood. And being in a patient enough mood for this music is not an exact science. It takes time to grow on you regardless.
I was thinking about what is happening in the world at the moment: institutions, belief systems, economies, national borders, superpowers, governments, even religions are all dissolving. I saw them play last year, and seriously I was blown away. Thought about it for weeks afterwards. Really made an impression on me. Their use of film (celluloid) with the music is riveting and it seems to take in so many images of decay, with one of the main points being that the USA is in decline. At least that is what I got from it.
What a fantastic band. I 'rediscover' specific albums of theirs at different times. What I mean is, I've listened to all of them, but perhaps I'm not always in the mind-state required to fully take them in. About 5 years back, F♯ A♯ ∞ captured me on a wild 3 tab acid trip. A monumental work of art. 2 years ago, Yanqui U.X.O. became probably my favourite release of theirs as I was aimlessly walking around Barcelona after finding out my mother had passed away from cancer, halfway across the world. I was in the right state, a 'god damn it, fuck it all' attitude that made me completely align with the magnificent, apocalyptic music. Today, I've finally heard Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress in what must be the right mind state because it's hitting me unlike every other time I've ever heard it. There is not a single album of theirs that is a misstep. just a genius bunch of people that want to put all their thoughts and emotions into music and release it out onto the world.
For a first-timer or a stranger to gybe: This album is acutally a single track on its own, divided into four parts. Please keep that in mind when you listen to it.
I absolutely adore this music/album. I love the tense feeling of restraint that pervades the whole recording, like all the band members are barely, barely holding back from making a completely batshit crazy malange of chaotic noise.
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another beautiful album (reminds me of old Earth) from these lovely artists, although i can't help thinking that if this was released by some young band no one was familiar with, it would be dismissed and tossed away...
really wasn't a fan of this album til i went to see them live and they played the first track. blew me the fuck away, especially with the projections and everything. for some reason i find it boring on record but as good as any classic godspeed live.
Just saw them play this album in it's entirety and about 5 other songs at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto...unbelievably great 2 hour set...completely insanely loud, I've been to literally hundreds of rock/metal shows and they were significantly louder than 99% of them (it's two days later and my ears still don't quite feel right) but it was completely worth it. Xylouris White opened and actually nailed a killer set too...anyone who hasn't seen these guys live do yourself a favor and go see them. One of the best live acts you'll have the pleasure to see.
I saw GS! last week in London and towards the end I headed to the back of the crowd - right next to the projectionist - suddenly the stereo imaging totally came together, and combined with the whir of the 4 old school projectors beside me, the whole event seemed elevated even further. It was pretty much hypnotic. Great stuff. We are lucky to have bands like this.
Josue De La Torre I agree, I definitely was expecting more, first and last track were the live version almost, so the rest seems like a 'fill in' - nonetheless, I still very much look forward to someday seeing them live.
MarlenLife Saw them in France about 2 years ago, was so pumped out. then the sound was shitty, it was full of nerds wearing oversized glasses with flannel shirts and boots talking shit during the concert . I left about 1h after, never been so disapointed :|
CamilleDeveveraux IT would definitely suck if people talk during their concerts, again maybe I am blowing out of proportion such experience, thanks for sharing a realistic experience in one.
MarlenLife I saw them in London a few years ago and it was a very different experience, there may have been some talking and a few hipsters but did not detract from the sound, if only because it was probably the loudest thing I have heard in my life. Overall a sublime, almost out-of-body experience, the drone is something else heard in person. Devastating, draining but ultimately exhilarating. One of those beautiful moments you do not experience so much as simply suffer.
Thanks for sharing that, I have emailed their tour manager to see whether they have any plans to come to Mexico, he said it could be a possibility at the end of this year or next one... long way to go but, it's been years already so, looking forward to it. Glad that you got to enjoyed it as much as I consider I would too!
Each track is good, in it's own way. They're like 4 seasons, different and not everyone will like them, but part of one long cycle. If you can look at the album that way you can appreciate it as both a whole and parts of a whole.
They're playing in my city tomorrow, and I haven't listened to them for a few years. Came to check out this new album and lets just say, I will NOT MISS this show :)
Even on one of my least favorite godspeed albums. I still fucking love it to death. I put Godspeed on a very very very very very very very very high standard
+Dominic Vogel See every Godspeed record is fucking amazing, 10/10 discography for me. I would rate it like this: 1. F♯ A♯ ∞ 2. Yanqui U.X.O 3. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven 4. Slow Riot 5. 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress 6. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! All of these albums are phenomenal
@@BoboBen35 REALLY old, I know, but I love taking about music so: 1. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven 2. F♯ A♯ ∞ 3. Yanqui U.X.O 4. Slow Riot 5. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! 6. 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
jesus ..ihave lived through lots of genres of music, not so long ago raidiohead where miles away from ..all agree!! Now GSYBE are out there no other act or form can touch them!.....p,s.......i'me 56 years old,
(Maybe?) unpopular opinion: If I may paraphrase John Waters: Sometimes an artist's "lesser" work is better than their "better" work. I feel this way about Yanqui U.X.O. and I feel that way about this album.
I wonder how does it come to be that the type that listens to this is also the type that loves Kubrick and Lynch.... Is not a judgement or an attack or what so ever of that kind...I just wonder...
+RingofRae RoR Similar tone, mood, and themes...I've read books that fit in perfectly with these things as well (House of Leaves)...as individuals, as creative people, we're not as unique as we think we are XD
sharon b ... I think we are unique, it is rather the context that tends to uniformisation, fortunately, what lies behind, the way things and beings are related to each other, still way too complex to be held and understood, it stil escapes to "our" control...
For some reason, I never got into Kubrick or Lynch, except for one movie about an old guy making a long tractor journey. I could never get onto Philip K. Dick or H.P. Lovecraft either (do those 2 go hand in hand?) Ditto William Gibson and the Bladerunner/Crash author, or Clive Barker. Something tells me that all of these things go together. However, I really like what I am listening to here.
Jawed Mars If it came out in a different year maybe but so many amazing albums got released in 2015. My favorite is probably either "to pimp a butterfly" or "the epic".
Majestic, moving. Never heard of them before today. I'm 64, and lots more of them to look forward to.
Hell yeah brother
Very kool
They are incredible live!! Take a shovel to scrape yr jaw up off the floor!
@@plathandpinter they are touring Europe in January 2022
Welcome aboard, captain.
That fucking drone is amazing, but I see so many people talk about how much they dislike it. If it still hasn't clicked for you, come back to it at a point in your life when the sky is falling. Put some headphones on, and then play it in complete darkness. Then maybe it will finally make sense to you. The music itself never changes, but we as people do.
One of the best things they've done really.
i dont understand why people enjoy having mixed 2 loud vocals spitting and yelling at them digitally all day.
It wasn't easy due to the consistency of this band, but I've figured out the PROPER way to rank all the GYBE albums:
1. Personal opinion
2. Personal opinion
3. Personal opinion
4. Personal opinion
5. Personal opinion
6. Personal opinion
Absolutely correct dude.
Personal opinion is so overrated.
Alex Abdullah but everyone should have my opinion, because I'm the center of the universe! :(
Alex Abdullah Well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.
Alex Abdullah I agree for the most part but I think 2 and 3 are debatable.
1. The one you're listening to right fucking now
2. The first one you heard
3. Tie: all the ones you're not listening to right fucking now
I listened to GY!BE back in my early twenties, got super bummed about their breakup, then kind of moved on with my life. I recently watched Under the Banner of Heaven which had East Hastings featured in one episode and it fully reignited my passion for this band, and I come back only to find they've released, like, four more albums since I stopped listening. Just as incredible and powerful. My god.
Glad you're back king.
bro theyre releasing another one
Godspeed is a band where you could choose any one of their albums at random and make a completely valid and logical argument why it's their best. These guys are so consistent, and every album has something unique and amazing in it.
Yep! I'm actually think these newer releases are overtaking the classics in my personal ranking.
They are certainly denser and heavier, the ambient middle section of this album is just fantastic
That's funny. My only problem with this album is that the ambient middle section drags on for too long. I prefer it when the drone parts are shorter and more evenly distributed among tracks. The first and last track on this album, however, are great
Cystlib Interesting, as I find that the middle drone section is some of the best material they've ever composed.
I remember clearly the first time i heard this album was when I borrowed a friends Ipod whilst travelling Central America. I used to listen to this album while driving through the countryside of Nicaragua, Guatemala etc. I was heading to the ancient mayan site of Palenque and knew this album would compliment it. I was walking around old temples contemplating all the bloody battles over the hundreds of years and sacrifices etc. I didn't need drugs or alcohol etc, i had everything I needed. For the charging outro I just sat infront of the Temple Of The Count and took it all in. I was nearly in tears by the end and i'm honestly getting goosebumps just writing about it, it truly was one of the most powerful moments in my life.
To me this album feels like a story in 4 parts. Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light is a society recognizing impending disaster but optimistic that they will be able to stop it. Lamb's Breath is when the disaster hits and the area turns into barren wasteland. Asunder, Sweet is when they attempt to leave their desolate surroundings but in the final track they realize that everywhere else is just as barren as where they came from, so they try to rebuild and avoid the mistakes that led to the initial disaster
I cant believe that somebody else feels EXACTLY the same as I do about the album- I wanted to write the EXACT things..Strange:)))
Whenever I decide to listen to a gybe album I do the following.
1. Make sure I won´t be disturbed for the next hour minimum.
2. Maybe smoke a little jay (though absolutely optional)
3. Turn off all the ligths and making sure to be in complete darkness.
4. pop up my headphones, press the play button and turn off the last light resource -> my computer monitor.
5. Close my eyes and enjoy.
Same
+ppnnyyy Can't imagine to listen to this without proper speakers, wouldn't feel anything in just my head, the bones want to shake, too. 1200 watts usually do it.
+ppnnyyy Thats WHAT I DOOOOO!!!!!
+Spirit creature not wearing the shape of a man edgyyyyyy shit
+Spirit creature not wearing the shape of a man heyy BC crew!! I don't know you though
'Piss Crowns Are Trebled' is my favorite track from the album.
+MegaSnippezz Can you help with what 'piss crowns' are?!
MegaSnippezz but this is Goliath.
Godspeed is probably one of the greatest rock bands ever to exist.
32:09 This moment is absolutely astonishing, incredible
It’s a rainy day, I’ve been going through Godspeed’s discography for a while. It’s 8 in the morning, and I’ve listened to all their albums except for this, Luciferian Towers, and G_d’s Pee, time to continue lying in bed and give this a listen
I don't go out much, but today (like an hour ago) I learned that this band didn't break up like I thought. The first three albums are some of my absolute favourite music of all time. Not even kidding when I say It's been FIFTEEN YEARS since I bought Yanqui UXO and I thought that was the end of it, and I was heartbroken..... AND NOW I HAVE TWO MORE ALBUMS TO LISTEN TO!!!!!! AND ANOTHER COMING OUT REAL SOON! Honestly you have no idea how much joy this brings to my heart.
@@FunnyValentine was also in that boat til I saw Anthem for No State was released, which fit the times perfectly. Another?
and now you got another
Lift your skinny fists like antenna to the heavens
G_ds pee at states end it's pretty good too
If I could broadcast something endlessly into space it would be GYBE. Nothing else so fully explains humanity to me, you just hold on.
Swans - To Be Kind and this.
I was on tour when I was the bassist of a band I won't name the first time I listened to this. In a hotel room, stoned, put my earbuds, in and had visions.
personal opinion.........top godspeed tracks are as follows.....1 slow riot.....2....getting fucked up while listening to this 'knew album'....awesome.....breathtaking.....moved to tears......somebody agree w/me please....lists are ,,,,,,
If GY!BE and Swans made an album that would be one of if not the greatest Post-Rock album of all time.
Daniel Jones you got that TBK album cover, hell yeah.
+Daniel Jones That would be interesting, to say the least
+Daniel Jones I hope this happens.
+Daniel Jones I prefer them to stay separate. GYBE is a group thing, Swans.. are mainly Michael Gira. That fusion would clash, psychologically.
+Daniel Jones Throw in Sigur Ros, and then we have all we need.
I saw these guys live last night playing this as the main portion of the show, but also played some portions from Skinny Fists(parts of Static), "'Allelujah!" (Mladic) and even "Slow Riot" (Blaise Bailey Finnegan III) which I recognized. They started off with Mladic, but extended the intro with reverb on a cello and violin for over 10 minutes, with each band member slowly stepping on stage over that time, all the while static on the projection screen behind them began to materialize into flashing scribbles spelling "hope." The show was honestly just amazingly atmospheric. I got real spooked though as they played Lamb's Breath and Asunder, Sweet from this, with distorted images of a deer and sheep in the background, flashing in their negative colors. Right now, I think they might have blended the image of that deer with the album cover here. Honestly, didn't really think too much of this album, but around that point 30:00- 33:30 in Piss Crowns when they played it, I was biting my lip because it was so fucking perfect. I think Piss Crowns might be my favorite Godspeed track.
I feel like this is their heaviest album... laced with a lot of sadness and grief almost towards the end. Every GY!BE album is different, like they have different auras about them. It's impossible really to say one's the best, depends on what you're in the mood for. F#A# is truly apocalyptic on a bleak future. Skinny Fists is like a walk through an entire lifespan in an hour and a half. Yanqui UXO is that wartime depression album. I love them all deeply.
+Not Much Of A Fan ~ was a beautiful show...perfect venue for them.
+Not Much Of A Fan @ Thalia Hall in Chicago? Thanks so much for posting this
34:49 onwards. This is honestly one of the best guitar riffs I've ever heard in rock music, ever.
It REALLY sounds like Donovan's Mellow Yellow.
nope
Most beautiful thing to grace mankind, not many are reaching for Grace only gratification amidst decaying world
to me it's a tragedy how misunderstood this is. It's basically one long song. Individual movements, etc. The thing is, I always sort of facepalm when people say there's ''boring parts'' it's like they only wait for the noisiest moments or climaxes. That's extremely narrow minded and really discredits this incredible group. They're making pieces, not soundbites for you to easily consume. Without the quieter parts, the huge climaxes wouldn't have any context. I don't get it, but i guess it's their opinion and yada yada yada. I just think, like find another band if that's your issue. These guys are never going to be for you.
***** As long as I can remember, I only listen to jimi for life advice. Then again, I might be doing too much peyote.
Dawson J I think it's just right :) They represent something special, they're showing an unique way. The way of what? I don't know, but I listened cliché music too, some metal, some rock.. Then Billy Talent (from Canada too, with original tunes.. I just felt something in it). Then I get started to listening to punk-rock (Bad Religion, NoFX, Rise Against), I wanted something more special, with an unique opinion and new tunes (for me).
5 years passed and now I'm here, listening GYBE (and TSMZ), opening my soul and looking at it thru my meanless body. I think it's more then a band, more then a music, and I think people that don't like it aren't prepared yet. For what? I don't know, but they are not.
And I think somewhere is something more delicious that I don't understand yet just like people don't understand GYBE now. Because I'm only 22yo and the life is way fu*king long. And I'm afraid a bit.
And the meaning of it all? That the phrase "these guys are never going to be for you" can be false, they could be for everyone.
Dawson J That people have different tastes is not a tragedy, it's the miracle of life! It's not narrow minded but it's highly narrow minded to expect everyone to "understand" (=like) the same music. The Jazz lover, the Opera lover and the Beethoven-Freak will think the same about "their" music... Just enjoy the music - and the miracles of life (there are so many colours out there (in the minds of people), believe me!
Dawson J FUCK.OFF.
Franta Prokop those bands you listed are pop-punk, not punk rock
Once you start comparing this to other releases you're immediately going to start building up barriers. Just try to enjoy it for what it is.
Scott Smith i'm going to compare this with silver mt zion and u can't do anything about it.
+Draykid Haha, that is your prerogative.
thanks scott smith that means a lot. :D
thank you!
Scott Smith exactly. Just enjoy this monumental beast we are privileged to listen too.
I will buy this album.
…And I have.
Amps for Buddha based!
it's funny how much of a compliment or act of devotion it has become to buy a physical copy of something haha but i feel the same as you
Ricardo Clemente i know what you mean, if people stop caring and making these devotional acts, music as a whole will most assuredly die as a result, that is why we as fans of beautiful music, now more than ever, have a responsibility to show the artists we care about and enjoy the love they need, or else they will cease to be
-- end rant
Ricardo Clemente I agree. For me, buying the physical album is meant as exactly that: a compliment or sign of true fandom. That's how I show how much I like a band, by how much of their discography I own physically. Plus, there are a lot of little details and flourishes you get with the album art. I love looking at jacket designs or lyric book layouts, and adds a lot to the overall feel of an album.
I think when first hearing any of their albums, any person is gonna dismiss it as pretentious drivel if not in a patient enough mood. And being in a patient enough mood for this music is not an exact science. It takes time to grow on you regardless.
it didn't take me long to get into it, but i'm sure there def was a point in my life i don't know if i'd even like this stuff.
Wow man that ending... Piss Crowns is legit
Probably my favourite Godspeed track ever, maybe even tops 'Sleep' on 'lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven'
Anthems for the Dissolving Age.
+James Barrett That's the most spot on description of GYBE's music I've ever read. Thanks.
Define Dissolving Age?
I was thinking about what is happening in the world at the moment: institutions, belief systems, economies, national borders, superpowers, governments, even religions are all dissolving. I saw them play last year, and seriously I was blown away. Thought about it for weeks afterwards. Really made an impression on me. Their use of film (celluloid) with the music is riveting and it seems to take in so many images of decay, with one of the main points being that the USA is in decline. At least that is what I got from it.
James Barrett that's cool, good thought thanks
Couldn't describe GY!BE music better
What a fantastic band. I 'rediscover' specific albums of theirs at different times. What I mean is, I've listened to all of them, but perhaps I'm not always in the mind-state required to fully take them in. About 5 years back, F♯ A♯ ∞ captured me on a wild 3 tab acid trip. A monumental work of art. 2 years ago, Yanqui U.X.O. became probably my favourite release of theirs as I was aimlessly walking around Barcelona after finding out my mother had passed away from cancer, halfway across the world. I was in the right state, a 'god damn it, fuck it all' attitude that made me completely align with the magnificent, apocalyptic music. Today, I've finally heard Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress in what must be the right mind state because it's hitting me unlike every other time I've ever heard it. There is not a single album of theirs that is a misstep. just a genius bunch of people that want to put all their thoughts and emotions into music and release it out onto the world.
I saw them live when they were in Philly last September.
What makes it even better was the fact that it was my first concert ever.
The way Lamb's Breath tugs on the soul body......chills....
Greatest instrumental group of all time
For a first-timer or a stranger to gybe: This album is acutally a single track on its own, divided into four parts. Please keep that in mind when you listen to it.
I absolutely adore this music/album. I love the tense feeling of restraint that pervades the whole recording, like all the band members are barely, barely holding back from making a completely batshit crazy malange of chaotic noise.
@Rouge Five Missed out on them last they were in Australia :(
17:30 to about 20:00 ish - some would say boring. Screw them. I would say haunting and atmospheric.
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2. This is a river and you are a liar
3. Avec Sans Avec
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Une intense tuerie musicale, une claque monumentale, une constellation de sons en furie. Ecouter ces 40 minutes de musique absolue vous ouvrent une porte sur l'indicible, l'insoupçonnable ...
another beautiful album (reminds me of old Earth) from these lovely artists, although i can't help thinking that if this was released by some young band no one was familiar with, it would be dismissed and tossed away...
really wasn't a fan of this album til i went to see them live and they played the first track. blew me the fuck away, especially with the projections and everything. for some reason i find it boring on record but as good as any classic godspeed live.
Dead on. the projections are the perfect magnifier.
(russian)Вы лучшие! your music is divine!
Just saw them play this album in it's entirety and about 5 other songs at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto...unbelievably great 2 hour set...completely insanely loud, I've been to literally hundreds of rock/metal shows and they were significantly louder than 99% of them (it's two days later and my ears still don't quite feel right) but it was completely worth it. Xylouris White opened and actually nailed a killer set too...anyone who hasn't seen these guys live do yourself a favor and go see them. One of the best live acts you'll have the pleasure to see.
+ZarathustrasCrown I was at that concert too, and that opening act blew me away. I couldn't believe how much sound two people could produce.
+ZarathustrasCrown Also, Godspeed's updated version of East Hastings was incredible. Probably my favorite part of the evening.
A very shamanic sensation, deep and bright.
***** he must be a Shamaniac!! yahtzee!!
I saw GS! last week in London and towards the end I headed to the back of the crowd - right next to the projectionist - suddenly the stereo imaging totally came together, and combined with the whir of the 4 old school projectors beside me, the whole event seemed elevated even further. It was pretty much hypnotic. Great stuff. We are lucky to have bands like this.
Im glad to hear that Behemoth got studio treatment, but I never thought it would be a whole album
Josue De La Torre I agree, I definitely was expecting more, first and last track were the live version almost, so the rest seems like a 'fill in' - nonetheless, I still very much look forward to someday seeing them live.
MarlenLife Saw them in France about 2 years ago, was so pumped out.
then the sound was shitty, it was full of nerds wearing oversized glasses with flannel shirts and boots talking shit during the concert . I left about 1h after, never been so disapointed :|
CamilleDeveveraux IT would definitely suck if people talk during their concerts, again maybe I am blowing out of proportion such experience, thanks for sharing a realistic experience in one.
MarlenLife I saw them in London a few years ago and it was a very different experience, there may have been some talking and a few hipsters but did not detract from the sound, if only because it was probably the loudest thing I have heard in my life. Overall a sublime, almost out-of-body experience, the drone is something else heard in person. Devastating, draining but ultimately exhilarating. One of those beautiful moments you do not experience so much as simply suffer.
Thanks for sharing that, I have emailed their tour manager to see whether they have any plans to come to Mexico, he said it could be a possibility at the end of this year or next one... long way to go but, it's been years already so, looking forward to it. Glad that you got to enjoyed it as much as I consider I would too!
I just got free tickets to a GYBE show and i have never heard of them till just now . . . this is going to be a crazy show, i can tell!
was it?
I love how dark and trippy this music is.
Each track is good, in it's own way. They're like 4 seasons, different and not everyone will like them, but part of one long cycle. If you can look at the album that way you can appreciate it as both a whole and parts of a whole.
This is like something Earth would make! Amazing!
***** hell. yes. glad someone else made that connection!
Just found them out today... what a great thing. 3rd album i listen to.
I've only heard 15 minutes of this so far. Have to say Tiny Silver Hammers still is my favorite. But this is nothing i would call disappointing.
Austin Schlatter ok at 28:00 i'm considerably thinking of changing my mind
A friend of mine told me about this group, and I can't say enough good things about it! Just so stately and awesome, and such a MASSIVE sound!
It feels so smooth going down. love it
A friend of mine was drilling for oil and when the pipe broke this song came out of the pipe, Asunder Sweet
Don't you mean he was panning for gold? ;)
God this album is good. You don´t need mushrooms on this.
From 38:45 to the end makes listening to the entire song pay off. It's an amazing ending.
first and last songs off the album are amazing with some drawn out ambient in between. love the more metal influenced direction godspeed takes here
this played live was absolutely great, I recommend everyone to see GY!BE live
They're playing in my city tomorrow, and I haven't listened to them for a few years. Came to check out this new album and lets just say, I will NOT MISS this show :)
This slaps. And it Slaps hard, I am hooked
This is jizzable
Even on one of my least favorite godspeed albums. I still fucking love it to death. I put Godspeed on a very very very very very very very very high standard
+Dominic Vogel See every Godspeed record is fucking amazing, 10/10 discography for me.
I would rate it like this:
1. F♯ A♯ ∞
2. Yanqui U.X.O
3. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
4. Slow Riot
5. 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
6. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
All of these albums are phenomenal
***** Ikr :) These albums are fucking classics
@@BoboBen35 REALLY old, I know, but I love taking about music so:
1. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
2. F♯ A♯ ∞
3. Yanqui U.X.O
4. Slow Riot
5. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
6. 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
By the time I was about a half hour in the majesty of this piece really hit me hard. A+
Listening this and reading the comments brings me a great satisfaction. Almost like the Flow some years ago.
I've had an eargasm about three times now.
Luke H. Make it four.
EDIT: Five.
+Gardue ᅚ
Who's gonna clean up this mess? It's all over the place !!!
So good.
Good to see my favorite band is still going strong. Love the new material!
Fantastic concert on 30/10/2015 in Antwerp, Belgium !
I would love to hear Godspeed cover Auld Lang Syne. They do a good job with folk songs, I think a lot of long time fans would dig it too.
What is this perfect musical madness? Am I dead?
This is really, really, really, really good.
Thanks for the upload
The rock of the Mile End. There is a universe in this music, just listen.
Well I'm glad I decided to look at GYBE's discography today. Had no idea this came out. Amazing. :D
sequence starting at 7:43 - serene and beautiful
completely on a different level
Album of the year !!
picture of a book with fingers in front of the lense... I see what you did there godspeed
WOAH! i never saw that actually..
This doesn't feel like a full complete album to me, but I did very much enjoy it's sounds and nuances. Very conquering and dramatic. I like.
Given the fact that each song carries over from the last one, it really is more of a 40-minute single.
If you haven't seem them live, do yourself the favor. It's like going to another dimension
My favourite song of theirs is Godspeed You Black Emperor
SAME
so fucking pumped to see them at the 9:30, going through and analyzing with pen and paper every single track I can find until then
How does one go about mixing something like this?? Holy jebus
Ka
@1234 abcd lol
17:48 Why is this so relaxing??? Wow
un disco bellissimo nella sua composizione !!!
They're playing this month at DonauFest in Austria. Also on the bill: Grouper!
jesus ..ihave lived through lots of genres of music, not so long ago raidiohead where miles away from ..all agree!! Now GSYBE are out there no other act or form can touch them!.....p,s.......i'me 56 years old,
+Stephen Allan What has living through so much music been like?
(Maybe?) unpopular opinion: If I may paraphrase John Waters: Sometimes an artist's "lesser" work is better than their "better" work. I feel this way about Yanqui U.X.O. and I feel that way about this album.
See you in Warsaw in november. Greatest birthday ever.
this music is god.
the outro the angels sending you on your way.
Whew ha, it's POP MUSIC. Love it, just like any other GYBE album. All drift like worried fire.
+jayropinsky Good one
5 years today | Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress' (2015)
HOW COME this was released here on 24th?
I wonder how does it come to be that the type that listens to this is also the type that loves Kubrick and Lynch.... Is not a judgement or an attack or what so ever of that kind...I just wonder...
+RingofRae RoR
It's a fantastic question asking how different medias can evoke the same themes.
+RingofRae RoR Similar tone, mood, and themes...I've read books that fit in perfectly with these things as well (House of Leaves)...as individuals, as creative people, we're not as unique as we think we are XD
sharon b ... I think we are unique, it is rather the context that tends to uniformisation, fortunately, what lies behind, the way things and beings are related to each other, still way too complex to be held and understood, it stil escapes to "our" control...
+RingofRae RoR Mr. Lynch makes music a little like this. ~~the big dream~~
For some reason, I never got into Kubrick or Lynch, except for one movie about an old guy making a long tractor journey. I could never get onto Philip K. Dick or H.P. Lovecraft either (do those 2 go hand in hand?) Ditto William Gibson and the Bladerunner/Crash author, or Clive Barker. Something tells me that all of these things go together. However, I really like what I am listening to here.
Que buen álbum por las rechuchas
Wena ql
I've been missing the party.
welcome
Without a doubt, this is the best album of 2015 (in my worthless opinion)
Jawed Mars If it came out in a different year maybe but so many amazing albums got released in 2015. My favorite is probably either "to pimp a butterfly" or "the epic".
Abraços do Brasil galera......parabéns! que puta som!!!!!!!!!!!
They are back again!
'Lambs' Breath' and 'Asunder, Sweet' are some of the best material they've ever released.
thanks been uploaded this.
And only lovers left alive.
The heavy, lagging sound of Peasantry reminds me a lot of "The Fool" by Neutral Milk Hotel.
Jack Ebmeier Jup!
Amazing!