Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (LP+7")

Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (LP+7")

Around the turn of the millennium, Godspeed You! Black Emperor were the right band at the right time. They arrived with their debut album, F#A#∞, in 1997, when the speed of technology was accelerating, genres were being shuffled, and people were thinking about where music might go. Godspeed, a loose and mysterious collective from Canada (guitarist Efrim Menuck seemed like the leader, but they preferred to be received as a unit) with an anarchist political bent who fused Ennio Morricone, minimalism, found sound, and metal-inflected noise, presented one intriguing possibility. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! is the fourth studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released in 2012. After re-forming in 2010, the group went on tour and silently released the album at a concert inBoston on 1 October 2012, with official release dates on 15 October in Europe and the following day in other countries. The album has received positive reviews and has been heralded as a comeback for the collective. 

Label: Constellation ‎– CST081-1

Format: Vinyl, LP, 180g, Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, All Media, Album 

Country: Canada

Released: 15 Oct 2012

Genre: Electronic, Rock

Style: Post Rock, Drone

Notes:

Pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a tipped-on heavyweight gatefold jacket printed in full-color process plus a spot metallic ink and spot matte varnish. LP dust sleeve is also 4-color print. Package includes a 7" in printed dust sleeve (same audio appears in a different sequence on the CD) and a 12"x48" pull-out poster (printed full-color on both sides) featuring a collage of film stills specially-photographed and captured from the GYBE live 16mm projections.

While noted here as sides A-D, the album artwork lists them respectively as A1, A2, B1 and B2. The artwork also suggests listening to it in the order of A1, B1, A2, B2, to match the CD pressing.

The release includes a download code card to be used from 15th October 2012.

The YouTube video referenced in the runout groove of side D is "Once Upon a Time in Athens: The Legend of the Riot Dog", showing various photos of Loukanikos, a stray dog that was present at many protests in Greece around 2010.

Sides A and B were recorded at Hotel2Tango. Tracks C and D recorded in concrete jamspace, mixed at the pines. All of it mastered at Greymarket.

Thanks: Doria, Wilie, Ilavsky, Hugsam, Tommy W., Mary&Fred&The Great American Music Hall, SI, Timothy H., JEM, D. D'andrea, Latham, Patrick in The Hotel Basement, Pierced Arrows Forever & Anarchopanda.

Price: SGD 48

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