Godspeed You! Black Emperor "G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Post Rock
Label: Constellation records
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: April 2, 2021
Tracklist

1. A Military Alphabet (five Eyes All Blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job’s Lament / First Of The Last Glaciers / Where We Break How We Shine (ROCKETS FOR MARY) (20:22) 

2. Video 2. Fire At Static Valley (5:58) 

3. “GOVERNMENT CAME” (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 KHz) / Cliffs Gaze / Cliffs’ Gaze At Empty Waters’ Rise / ASHES TO SEA Or NEARER TO THEE (19:47) 

4. OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.) (6:30) 

Total Time 52:37

Line-up

Aidan Girt – sitting drums and standing drums

David Bryant – electric guitars, mg-1

Efrim Manuel Menuck – electric guitars, op-1, radios

Mauro Pezzente – electric bass

Michael Moya – electric guitars

Sophie Trudeau – violins and organ

Thierry Amar – electric bass and upright bass

Timothy Herzog – sitting drums and standing drums, glockenspiel

Karl Lemieux and Philippe Leonard – 16mm projections

Description/Reviews:

Much of its 52 minutes is dominated by two longform pieces, each starting with recordings of shortwave radio transmissions – maybe the only form of communication that will be left after the societal collapse this lot perpetually anticipate. From there, the band progress through astonishing multi-part chronicles that take in defiant electric blues, shimmering drone, crunchy distortion and soaring post-rock crescendos.

Read the full review by Olly Thomas at kerrang.com

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Luciferian Towers"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Experimental Post Rock
Label: Constellation
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: September 22, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Undoing A Luciferian Towers (7:47)
2. Bosses Hang (14:45)
3. Fam / Famine (6:44)
4. Anthem For No State (14:38)

Total Time 43:54

Line-up: 
Aidan Girt: Drums
David Bryant: Electric guitar, MG-One
Efrim Manuel Menuck: Electric guitar, organ, OP-1
Karl Lemieux: 16mm film projections
Mauro Pezzente: Electric bass
Michael Moya: Electric guitar
Sophie Trudeau: Violins, organ
Thierry Amar: Contrebasse, electric bass
Timothy Herzog: Drums
   With
Bonnie Kane: Saxophone, flute, electronics (1)
Craig Pederson: Trumpet (1)

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Do Make Say Think "Stubborn Persistent Illusions"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Post Rock
Label: Constellation Records (CST120)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: May 19, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. War On Torpor (5:23)
2. Horripilation (10:27)
3. A Murder Of Thoughts (5:52)
4. Bound (4:49)
5. And Boundless (7:13)
6. Her Eyes On The Horizon (8:20)
7. As Far As The Eye Can See (7:51)
8. Shlomo's Son (3:44)
9. Return, Return Again (7:08)

Total Time 60:47

Line-up: 
Ohad Benchetrit – guitar, keyboard, horns
David Mitchell – drums
James Payment – drums
Justin Small – guitar, keyboard
Charles Spearin – guitar, bass, keyboard, horns
   With
Julie Penner – violin
Michael Barth – trumpet
Leon Kingstone – baritone saxophone
Adam Marvy – trumpet

Description/Reviews: 

*Stubborn Persistent Illusions *has the immediate trappings of a Do Make Say Think record. “War on Torpor,” which is unusually charged up from its first moments, can feel like it’s spinning in place as a result. “Horripilation” might be immediately identifiable as a DMST song—the clean, almost bumbling guitar riffs have a delicate sturdiness in their repetition—but as it winds around in minutes-long sections, the group uncovers new wrinkles in their sound. Two minutes in, a snare drum sounds downright funky all alone like that, and a few minutes later, a bass drum marches into a gallop. It’s not just that it sounds like a Do Make Say Think recording, it covers distance like one, a marathon approach: themes are repeated like track workout sets, interludes play out like lazy jogs, the home stretch feels like an accomplished return.

Read the full review by Jay Balfour at pitchfork.com

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Do Make Say Think "Stubborn Persistent Illusions"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Post Rock
Label: Constellation Records (CST120)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: May 19, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. War On Torpor (5:23)
2. Horripilation (10:27)
3. A Murder Of Thoughts (5:52)
4. Bound (4:49)
5. And Boundless (7:13)
6. Her Eyes On The Horizon (8:20)
7. As Far As The Eye Can See (7:51)
8. Shlomo's Son (3:44)
9. Return, Return Again (7:08)

Total Time 60:47

Line-up: 
Ohad Benchetrit – guitar, keyboard, horns
David Mitchell – drums
James Payment – drums
Justin Small – guitar, keyboard
Charles Spearin – guitar, bass, keyboard, horns
   With
Julie Penner – violin
Michael Barth – trumpet
Leon Kingstone – baritone saxophone
Adam Marvy – trumpet

Description/Reviews: 

*Stubborn Persistent Illusions *has the immediate trappings of a Do Make Say Think record. “War on Torpor,” which is unusually charged up from its first moments, can feel like it’s spinning in place as a result. “Horripilation” might be immediately identifiable as a DMST song—the clean, almost bumbling guitar riffs have a delicate sturdiness in their repetition—but as it winds around in minutes-long sections, the group uncovers new wrinkles in their sound. Two minutes in, a snare drum sounds downright funky all alone like that, and a few minutes later, a bass drum marches into a gallop. It’s not just that it sounds like a Do Make Say Think recording, it covers distance like one, a marathon approach: themes are repeated like track workout sets, interludes play out like lazy jogs, the home stretch feels like an accomplished return.

Read the full review by Jay Balfour at pitchfork.com

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Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche "Pas Pire Pop,I Love You So Much"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Krautrock, Psychedelic, Pop
Label: Constellation Records (CST121)
Format: vinyl, CD, digital
Release date: January 20, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Trans-pop Express I (6:39)
2. Trans-pop Express II (2:55)
3. Alizé et Margaret D. Midi moins le quart. Sur la plage, un palmier ensanglanté I (3:23)
4. Alizé et Margaret D. Midi moins le quart. Sur la plage, un palmier ensanglanté II (5:20)
5. Alizé et Margaret D. Midi moins le quart. Sur la plage, un palmier ensanglanté III (4:08)
6. Tourner incessamment dans l’éclatement euphorique de soi – Road Painting Ahead I (3:34)
7. Tourner incessamment dans l’éclatement euphorique de soi – Road Painting Ahead II (5:14)
8. Tourner incessamment dans l’éclatement euphorique de soi – Road Painting Ahead III (5:06)
9. Tourner incessamment dans l’éclatement euphorique de soi – Road Painting Ahead IV (3:06)

Total time 39:25

Line-up: 
Sébastien Fournier: guitare, vocals
Éric Gingras: guitare, vocals
Samuel Bobony: drums
Jean-Sébastien Truchy: bass, electronics, synths, vocals

Description/Reviews: 

Comprising three distinct pieces that weave and charm their way through swirling psychedelic rock, skittish afro-beat and the mesmeric narcosis of kraut-rock repetition, the second album from Montreal’s forward-thinking prog-pop purveyors Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche moves like the shifting of a kaleidoscope. Pas Pire Pop's deceptively pleasing, but these long-form jams unfurl their nuanced secrets and reveal themselves as highly composed and skilfully rendered cosmic freak-outs, as intellectually rewarding and loudly enjoyable as anything on the Constellation roster.

Read the full review Timothy Archer by at thequietus.com

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress"

Country: Canada
Genre(s): Instrumental Experimental Post Rock
Label: Constellation
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: March 31, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'
2. Lambs' Breath
3. Asunder, Sweet
4. Piss Crowns Are Trebled

Line-up: 
Thierry Amar: Bass and contrebasse
David Bryant: Electric guitar, portasound, organs and drones
Aidan Girt: Drums
Timothy Herzog: Drums and drones
Efrim Manuel Menuck: Electric guitar
Michael Moya: Electric guitar
Mauro Pezzente: Electric bass
Sophie Trudeau: Violins and drones

Description/Reviews: 

Known to fans and through live show recordings by the sobriquet "Behemoth", GYBE has gradually distilled this new work down to a fastidious and uncompromising essence in the studio, with the swing-time swagger of the opening unison riff in "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'" giving way to increasing microtonal divergences and an exhilarating immersion in the harmonic power of massed amplified instruments, before collapsing into some of the most visceral and unalloyed noise/drone the band has yet committed to tape on "Lambs' Breath" and "’Asunder, Sweet'”. The album closes with "Piss Crowns Are Trebled", a classic 14-minute piece of vintage Godspeed, where ascending and descending guitar and violin melodies intertwine over gut-rattling distorted bass in 3/4 time, segueing into a pummeling four-on-the-floor series of sparkling, soaring crescendos  

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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra "Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything"

Country: Canada
Sub Genre: Post Rock
Label: Constellation Records
Release date: January 24, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Fuck Off Get Free (For the Island of Montreal)
2. Austerity Blues
3. Take Away These Early Grave Blues
4. Little Ones Run
5. What We Loved Was Not Enough
6. Rains Thru the Roof at Thee Grande Ballroom (For Capital Steez)

Line-up: 
Thierry Amar: Contrebasse, electric bass, plucked piano, vocals
Efrim Menuck: Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mellotron, vocals
Jessica Moss: Volin, plucked piano, vocals
Sophie Trudeau: Violin, plucked piano, vocals
David Payant: Drums, organ, vocals

Description/Reviews: 

This lyric in many ways encapsulates Menuck's unflinching take on a world replete with shabbiness, greed and injustice, seen through the lens of parenthood, mortality, endurance and defiance. There are few other musicians who deliver social critique with the courage and honesty of lines like “All our cities gonna burn / All our bridges gonna snap / All our pennies gonna rot / Lightning roll across our tracks / All our children gonna die”. Feel-good music this is not; but neither can it reductively be tagged apocalyptic or world-weary. Fuck Off Get Free rages with scorn and with hope, utterly passionate but pointedly unromantic. Thee Silver Mt. Zion once again demonstrates, like few other bands working today, that there is much to fight for and against, and plenty more fight songs to sing. 

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Esmerine "Dalmak"

Country: Canada
Sub Genre: Instrumental Classical, Chamber, Ethnic, Post Rock
Label: Constellation Records
Release date: September 3, 2013
Tracklist: 
01. Learning To Crawl (03:21)
02. Lost River Blues I (07:24)
03. Lost River Blues II (03:16)
04. Barn Board Fire (04:06)
05. Hayale Dalmak (03:53)
06. Translator's Clos I (03:51)
07. Translator's Clos II (06:50)
08. White Pine (03:57)
09. Yavri Yavri [05:19]

Line-up: 
Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) -  Glockenspiel, Marimba, Music Box
Rebecca Foon (Silv  er Mt. Zion, Set Fire To Flames) - Cello
Jamie Thompson (Unicorns, Islands) - Drums, Glockenspiel, Marimba
Brian Sanderson - Bass, Tenor Banjo, Violin

    with
Hakan Vreskala - Bendir, Vocals
Baran Aşık - Duduk
Ali Kazim Akdağ - Saz
James Hakan Dedeoğlu - Electric Guitar
Sarah Neufeld - Violin
Aaron Lumley - Contrebasse

Description/Reviews: 

Dalmak is a Turkish verb with many connotations: to contemplate, to be absorbed in, to dive into, to bathe in, to rush into, to plummet. As a title for Esmerine's new album, "dalmak" refers in a literal sense to immersion in the culture and music of Istanbul but also appropriately evokes the range of music that emerged from this immersion: a collection of songs that shift between meditative pulsing and enveloping restraint to headlong flights into rhythm and groove. With Dalmak, Esmerine presents some of its most richly minimal and intimate music alongside what is surely its most explosive, energized and ornate. The album is a tour-de-force of cross-cultural music-making, emotive but unsentimental, deeply textured and detailed but never precious, superbly guided throughout by a balance of DIY rock, new folk and modern classical/contemporary sensibilities. 

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Translator’s Clos II

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