Godspeed You Black Emperor! Lift Your Skinny Fists Like An
Spin: 8 out of 10 - "...An emotionally stirring achievement....camping out around a couple of notes, chugging leisurely...toward a cacophonous climax..."
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Vinyl LP Details
- Released: December 21, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Constellation
Entertainment Reviews:
Spin - 12/00, pp.220-222
8 out of 10 - "...An emotionally stirring achievement....camping out around a couple of notes, chugging leisurely...toward a cacophonous climax..."Q - 7/01, p.87
Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time".Q - 12/00, p.122
4 stars out of 5 - "...Orchestral rock elegies...laced with glockenspiels and violins, and bolstered by thunderous drums and scalding guitars....compelling..."Magnet - 1-2/01, p.45
Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000" - "...The music on this double album is very nearly larger than life..."Magnet - 1-2/01, pp.90,92
"...This isn't your father's prog....An exquisitely constructed sound with a sharp punk edge and an anarchist's ear for chaos. High-concept in a Moby kind of way..."The Wire - 10/00, p.66
"...[They] disperse through snippets of Coney Island nostalgia, a shopgirl peptalk, an infirm preacher and an ill-tempered, indeterminate buzz drowning in poorly tuned radio static...The improvising...falling within the beat parameters..."Muzik - 11/00, p.121
3 out of 5 - "...Impressively ambitious and stupefyingly pompous, it's the perfect antidote to such lickspittle reactionary fripperies as fun or sex."CMJ - 10/30/00, p.5
"...Evokes thundering waves, sky-shattering storms and other preternatual events of Biblical proportions..."NME (Magazine) - 12/30/00, p.78
Ranked #16 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year".NME (Magazine) - 10/14/00, p.40
9 out of 10 - "...Extraordinarily powerful and beautiful music....It's a world where ever-spiraling crescendos are detonated by 9 musicians..."Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Storm: Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven; Gathering
- 2.Static: Terrible Canyons of Static; Chart #3; World Police and
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Sleep: Murray Ostril (They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach); Monheim;
- 2.Antennas to Heaven: Moya Sings Baby - O; Edgy Swingset Acid; She
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 53,114
- UPC: 666561001216
- Shipping Weight: 1.14/lbs (approx)
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