It's so weird... I started listening to GY!BE in the late 90s and have absolutely loved the first three albums (+EP) since ever. But when they came back after 10 years of silence I really thought they had just lost all their magic. I listened to the 2012 album and this one a time or two but dismissed them as unfortunate failures. I've even been avoiding these albums because I didn't want to be reminded of how far my dear GYBE had fallen. Now that I'm giving them another chance I really don't know what I was thinking! Sure, the first albums hold a special place in my heart after having 20 years of a loving personal relationship with them, but I was definitely too quick to dismiss the new stuff and I'm glad that I finally realized my mistake. It's all excellent.
I don't know. I gave all the new albums a solid listen, and I do think they lost their magic, even though their last is a step in the right direction. I belong to the Yanqui u.x.o. club, that's their peak in my opinion, and i just find their new sound flatter, angrier but less inspired, less subtle, less beautifully placed dissonances, more conventional melodically, with less ambience. And i don't think it's just youthful nostalgia: yanqui u.x.o. is one of the very few albums that blows me away as strongly today as it did 20 years ago, and partly also Lift. That was the time and the place when I think all members of the band seemed to share a coherent musical direction that at the same time felt immensily personal and intimate. That's quite an achievement.
@@zoltandujisin8139 I agree. The later albums only work for me on some rare occasions while the first three albums still hit the spot every damn time I listen to them. And Yanqui u.x.o. is my favorite too (but don't tell Infinity and Skinny Fists I said that).
The newer ones are definitely less subtle and they aren't as filigree as the old ones, but it is for this reason that I like Alleluljah! and this project. Both are sonically bold and thus make use of the fatter, more bombastic sound the band acquired after their comeback, probably due to the ten year break and the subsequent changes in line-up, recording environments, mixing and mastering techniques etc.. Mladic basically sounds like a psycheledic jam session, but evil* - this one has some (post-)metal qualities and incredible textures. I am not that fond of the latest 2 albums, though. (Not that they are bad, they are just the weakest ones in an over-all pretty great discography.) *Just listen to Head's On/Pill by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and then Mladic for reference. If you play that track first and Mladic second, it basically sounds like a hippie-kind of festival being visited either by a storm or, even worse, by heavy bombardment. Given the linkage between psychedelics and war established in the 60s (and the war-like nature of Mladic), it certainly is an experience. Kind of reinfoces the notion that post-rock (in the broadest sense) does continue elements of psychedelic rock, progrock and krautrock but with a melancholy or dark mood instead of the more happy and trippy mood of these genres.
@@zoltandujisin8139 Yanqui U.X.O. fanboy here also. god fucking damn it that album is a pure work of art, for me their best in an overwhelmingly-strong discography. I still think their 'weakest' releases would be a highlight in any other band's discography.
Une intense tuerie musicale, une claque monumentale, une constellation de sons en furie. Ecouter ces 40 minutes absolues de musique vous ouvrent une porte sur l'indicible, l'insoupçonnable ...
I don't know man, this is definitely their best album in my eyes. Clearest production, best musical ideas... It's like if you took some of the best parts of each prior album (compositional/melodic elements from Yanqui and F#, and ambience from Allelujah and Skinny Fists) and just improved on those ideas and made them way better. The pacing and structure is also the best among all of their albums. It doesn't get any better than this for me with Godspeed.
this band is a great example of being misunderstood. every release is self-aware of prior releases/current times and yet most fans seem to just be like "muhhhhskinnyfistsbetterrrr" or whatever, which i think is the fault of the music critic/hipster market. godspeed makes art and every album is a different painting and its not about what you want to hear
It's so weird... I started listening to GY!BE in the late 90s and have absolutely loved the first three albums (+EP) since ever. But when they came back after 10 years of silence I really thought they had just lost all their magic. I listened to the 2012 album and this one a time or two but dismissed them as unfortunate failures. I've even been avoiding these albums because I didn't want to be reminded of how far my dear GYBE had fallen.
Now that I'm giving them another chance I really don't know what I was thinking! Sure, the first albums hold a special place in my heart after having 20 years of a loving personal relationship with them, but I was definitely too quick to dismiss the new stuff and I'm glad that I finally realized my mistake. It's all excellent.
I don't know. I gave all the new albums a solid listen, and I do think they lost their magic, even though their last is a step in the right direction. I belong to the Yanqui u.x.o. club, that's their peak in my opinion, and i just find their new sound flatter, angrier but less inspired, less subtle, less beautifully placed dissonances, more conventional melodically, with less ambience. And i don't think it's just youthful nostalgia: yanqui u.x.o. is one of the very few albums that blows me away as strongly today as it did 20 years ago, and partly also Lift. That was the time and the place when I think all members of the band seemed to share a coherent musical direction that at the same time felt immensily personal and intimate. That's quite an achievement.
@@zoltandujisin8139 I agree. The later albums only work for me on some rare occasions while the first three albums still hit the spot every damn time I listen to them. And Yanqui u.x.o. is my favorite too (but don't tell Infinity and Skinny Fists I said that).
@@Blodhosta always good to find another member of this inexplicably restricted club of yanqui uxo fans 🙂
The newer ones are definitely less subtle and they aren't as filigree as the old ones, but it is for this reason that I like Alleluljah! and this project. Both are sonically bold and thus make use of the fatter, more bombastic sound the band acquired after their comeback, probably due to the ten year break and the subsequent changes in line-up, recording environments, mixing and mastering techniques etc.. Mladic basically sounds like a psycheledic jam session, but evil* - this one has some (post-)metal qualities and incredible textures. I am not that fond of the latest 2 albums, though. (Not that they are bad, they are just the weakest ones in an over-all pretty great discography.)
*Just listen to Head's On/Pill by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and then Mladic for reference. If you play that track first and Mladic second, it basically sounds like a hippie-kind of festival being visited either by a storm or, even worse, by heavy bombardment. Given the linkage between psychedelics and war established in the 60s (and the war-like nature of Mladic), it certainly is an experience. Kind of reinfoces the notion that post-rock (in the broadest sense) does continue elements of psychedelic rock, progrock and krautrock but with a melancholy or dark mood instead of the more happy and trippy mood of these genres.
@@zoltandujisin8139 Yanqui U.X.O. fanboy here also. god fucking damn it that album is a pure work of art, for me their best in an overwhelmingly-strong discography. I still think their 'weakest' releases would be a highlight in any other band's discography.
Seen them live once, and they played the first track off this; so heavy and dense. Loud as hell and so intense. I didn't intend to rhyme.
The last ten minutes of the album are the most powerful thing I've ever heard.
32:05 This moment is absolutely astonishing, completely blew me away when I first heard it.
Without the tension that comes before this moment would be nothing special at all.
It makes me cry with all of that distortion
The first minute of "Piss crowns..." is probably the darkest music I have ever experienced. A moment of complete hopelessness.
Une intense tuerie musicale, une claque monumentale, une constellation de sons en furie. Ecouter ces 40 minutes absolues de musique vous ouvrent une porte sur l'indicible, l'insoupçonnable ...
this is one of their best albums!
I don't know man, this is definitely their best album in my eyes. Clearest production, best musical ideas... It's like if you took some of the best parts of each prior album (compositional/melodic elements from Yanqui and F#, and ambience from Allelujah and Skinny Fists) and just improved on those ideas and made them way better. The pacing and structure is also the best among all of their albums. It doesn't get any better than this for me with Godspeed.
Well that's just like, your opinion, man.
Well that's just like, your opinion, man.
Well that's just like, your opinion, man.
even the songs are organized as HURRICANE-eye of the hurricane-HURRICANE
Never ending shivers....
this band is a great example of being misunderstood. every release is self-aware of prior releases/current times and yet most fans seem to just be like "muhhhhskinnyfistsbetterrrr" or whatever, which i think is the fault of the music critic/hipster market. godspeed makes art and every album is a different painting and its not about what you want to hear
Thank you!!!
F'me this is incredible music!
BEHEMOTH
Can't quite work out which is best - Piss Crown are Trebled or Anthem for No State.
impressive.
Just ..A big .. Big Woww .. 💫
Wholly fuck 😀😀😀