GYBE
returns with another soundtrack for our times. As the heretical
anarcho-punk spirit of the title implies, Godspeed harnesses some
particularly raw power,
spittle and grit across two riveting 20-minute side-length trajectories
of noise-drenched widescreen post-rock: inexorable chug blossoms into
blown-out twang, as some of the band’s most soaring, searing melodies
ricochet and converge amidst violin and bassline
counterpoint. Field recordings and roiling semi-improvised passages
frame these fervent epics, and two shorter self-contained 6-minute
pieces find the band at its most devastatingly beautiful, haunting and
elegiac. Poignant atmospherics, noise-drenched orchestration,
drone, hypnotic swingtime crescendos, inexorably-layered towers of
distorted clarion sound: STATE’S END encapsulates every beloved facet of
the band. Twenty-five years on, this new album is as vital, stirring,
timely and implacable as any in Godspeed You!
Black Emperor’s storied discography.
Just as STATE’S END summons the gamut of Godspeed’s constituent sonic
trademarks, so the album artwork spans the entirety of the band’s visual
history: the grainy monochromatic photography of recent releases finds
its way onto the inner sleeves, while the gatefold
cover art harkens back to the iconic graphics of earlier classic
records like Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada and Lift
Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven. STATE’S END features
illustrations by William Schmiechen, with the front cover taijitu
flowers and back cover tear gas canisters rendered in raised
thermographic black ink on the double-vinyl album jacket. The
illuminated cross from Godspeed’s debut F#A#∞ also makes a reappearance on the inside gatefold drawing, in recurrent homage to the electrified hilltop landmark
crucifix of the band’s Montréal hometown.
STATE’S END was recorded and mixed in Montréal in October 2020 at the
group’s homebase studio Thee Mighty Hotel2Tango by Jace Lasek, the
veteran award-winning indie producer (and co-founder of The Besnard
Lakes) who works with Godspeed for the first time on
this recording.
Thanks for listening. OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN. (R.I.P. D.H.)
Opening ISLAJA.
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