#NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28340 DEAD

[balleralbumcovers]

EPIC ALBUM COVER #78

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”

Released: 2024 (Constellation)

Post-rock

Additional fact: that number is now 42,792 as of October 23, 2024.

[jazznoisehere]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: "NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD" (Constellation Records, 2024)

Front cover photography by Stacy Lee.

[cantstayawaycani]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor reflects on spectating a genocide  | The Daily Campus

In an ideal world, “‘NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD’” would probably not exist, let alone be named what it is as a response to the genocide in Gaza that the world is watching. It’s a tragedy that the death count has increased considerably, and it hurts to put names and faces to these statistics. Nobody should have been killed. Still, dreaming in ideals without taking action to better the world at large does a disservice for everyone in the physical world who are being tortured, hurt and killed as we speak. As much as we try to ignore these brutal truths about human nature, legendary instrumental post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor (often abbreviated to GY!BE) mourns and pays tribute to those murdered in the genocide the best way they know how that isn’t direct advocacy and activism: art. 

One of my favorite bands released an album to bring stark, blunt awareness to the number of dead (as of the album recording) in the genocide in Gaza.

[senorboombastic]

Release Rundown - Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Public Service Broadcasting

Words: Ben Forrester Godspeed You! Black Emperor – NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD(Constellation) When legendary experimental collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor announced an autumn string of UK dates, I was pretty excited! Not only because I was finally able to make a headline show of theirs, but because I felt like new music was brewing. Since this lot reformed in 2012, I feel…

[dustedmagazine]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" (Constellation)

The night of the election in America, Godspeed You! Black Emperor played a show in Toronto. As they almost always do, they said nothing. No interaction beyond playing music and then expressing wordless thanks to the crowd as each stepped off stage to the roaring feedback surge that closed out “Piss Crowns Are Trebled” and the concert. Even if they’d taken a moment to check the news that night, what was there to say? As suggested last time here, the ineffable, unspeakable power of the Montreal collective can be read at least partially as the only possible response to the deranged and deranging power of repression and evil in the world. 2021 felt dark. Suffice it to say that things have not gotten better and appear set on getting quite a bit worse.

The title this time, of course, is a reference to the verified (and thus almost certainly lower than actual) death toll of the genocide in Gaza at the time of creation. Associate and Constellation labelmate Jessica Moss released her own powerful statement on the same issue this year, and again, things have not improved in the meantime. It’s enough to lead to a rare appearance of lyrics, with “RAINDROPS CAST IN LEAD” featuring a poem in Spanish read (and written? as always, the band remains gnomic) by Michele Fiedler Fuentes. Of course the current album will be viewed in light of current events (they almost beg you to do so, from track titles and statements on down), and while no Godspeed You! Black Emperor record is exactly drowning in levity, they cast a particularly grim panic over affairs here.

If G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! frequently felt like the massive, sweeping motions of some sort of gestalt entity, it’s fitting that things here feel fractured at times, if no less cohesive. Halfway through “PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS” it feels like there’s a fire alarm going on behind the banks of sound. One of the guitarists frequently sounds as if they’re trying to pickaxe their way through a boulder (especially on parts of “BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD”). The opening “SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS” sounds equally as if they might be tuning up for most of its length and like it’s a shame they’d already gotten around to using the name “Anthem for No State” as a title.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor has always been oriented towards apocalypse (the machine has been bleeding to death since their first album as a group, if not long before), and it continues to be queasily terrifying how swiftly the world rushes to meet them there. These are always someone’s last days; the rest of us wake up each morning and fall a little further down. They themselves say, this time, “what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody?” That may be the reason they close with “GREY RUBBLE - GREEN SHOOTS,” a tidy just-under-seven-minutes that presents both a stirring crescendo and an aching coda. Determined as always to nurture what is left growing after all the valedictions and maledictions are handed out. Every triumphant moment here feels wrested from the jaws of death, all too aware of who still gets claimed. They, and we, have to keep going.

Ian Mathers

[maximuswolf]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor return with new album 'NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28340 DEAD'

Godspeed You! Black Emperor return with new album 'NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD' https://ift.tt/qTp760V Submitted August 27, 2024 at 07:19PM by Alternative_Volume89 https://ift.tt/NHQRw8F via /r/Music

[junogears2]

Special mention to Cutting the Throat of God by Ulcerate, toe's NOW I SEE THE LIGHT, Respire's Hiraeth, Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28340 DEAD", Alcest's Les Chants de l'Aurore and envy's Eunoia.

This year had some incredible musical releases from the guys I follow, it's been so good all across the board.

I think Swans' Self Titled, Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace, Tenue's Arcos, bóvedas, pórticos and Blood Incantation's Absolute Elsewhere are the highlights I'd say