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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0796441804320
Label: Kranky
Manufacturer: Kranky
MPN: 43
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Kranky
Release Date: January 08, 2007
Studio: Kranky
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Editorial Review:
Canada's Godspeed You Black Emperor raise the ante on their already ambitious orchestral rock by releasing a double CD of material as their second full-length album. The group combines the drums and guitar of typical rock-band instrumentation with horns and strings to create a music built around drones and slowly evolving melodic figures. It rises and falls from delicate introductory passages to unabashed grand climaxes. Their juxtaposition of drums with violins and lush romantic tonality brings to mind Rachel's, but their compositional scale and the pounding repetitive intensity of their dynamic peaks evoke Glenn Branca's The Ascension. Although the two discs are indexed at only two 21-minute tracks each, the package includes a handy road map to the movements into which each is subdivided. The opening piece starts with five minutes of a 15-beat circular melodic pattern that is gradually embellished as the volume swells to an ecstatic roar. The release drops down to a pastoral drone that rebuilds to support an acid-etched guitar solo, which in turn yields to a unified 4/4 kraut rock pound that eventually explodes, leaving behind field recordings of public announcements mingled with wandering late-night Swell Maps piano. The other pieces use a similar set of sonic building blocks to take the listener on comparable journeys. Fans of Godspeed's previous work will be very happy, and the curious might want to hop on board as well. --Bob Bannister
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Like a Dream
Found this at a library being sold for 50 cents. A good buy. It's like some kind of dreamscape to me, only slowed down from dreams' usual chaotivc nature and put under magnifying glass. The music seems to take me on a cosmic journy of sorts, probing through what seems to be the darkness and random memory snippets of a person's mind. it's the sound of your subconcious being drilled into and tossed around by some farming machine whose name escapes me.
Rating:  - Cool space rock
This CD was given as a gift - the recepient seemed to enjoy this type of music and this band very much.
Rating: - maybe their best
i have heard all 4 of their albums. this one has my favorite song Sleep. the last song anntenas to heaven is amazing as well. the first 2 are very nice also.
sleep when performed live was in 2 pieces i think. one called monheim and one simply called part III.
i have to say i didnt really like their last album which came after this.
Rating: - a masterpiece
GYBE are probably the best live band I have ever seen and this is their masterpiece. A very ambitious record that succeeds in making you close your eyes and just listen to the music.
Rating:  - Long drifting soundscape
(please ignore number rating, I don't generally find them meaningful)
"Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven" by Godspeed You Black Emperor is a long sequence of shifting soundscapes, mainly instrumental, but with some recorded speech and other effects. Rather like walking along a beach where the buildings and so forth on the shoreline change every few miles, (I mean it's structured that way, not that it has any seashore sounds). Its the sort of thing I might have playing ... Read More
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