Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD"

"Their combative, determined sound is gripping. Cathartic, magisterial, elegiac – the detail and sensitivity of their interplay is what fuels it." - The Guardian

 "One of the few western acts to release music that explicitly references the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Musically, this is their strongest set since 2002’s Yanqui UXO. Bold, brave and brilliant." - The Observer ★★★★

"NO TITLE's music matches the blunt force of its name when it makes room for discomfort. Broadly elegiac, at times even hopeful." - The Wire ★★★★

"The embodiment of music as art. Removed from corporate influence, conventional song segmentation, and algorithmically tuned track lengths, Godspeed You! Black Emperor are free to convey a message uncompromised." - The Skinny ★★★★

"GY!BE has been fighting the good fight for three decades, and held on to hope, even when hope has seemed only a tendril.  Their new album – their finest, most complete recording in years – may not change any hearts or minds, but it will certainly encourage them." - A Closer Listen

"Its title pointedly referring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it’s a bleak, barren and beautiful soundscape of textured noise, field recordings, effects and post-rock dynamics for fans of bands like Swans or Stars Of The Lid." - Norman Records

“Another essential, if discomforting listen.” - UNCUT

“A genuine and wonderful listen, sporting enough sweeping instrumental progressions and ambient magic to satisfy even the most stone-faced of post-rock fans… capture(s) today’s pervading sense of hopelessness.” - Out Of Rage

"A soul-stirring album. It’s very rare for a band to be breaking new ground 30 years after they formed, but Godspeed You! Black Emperor shows us all that it’s possible." - Boolin Tunes 8.5/10

THE PLAIN TRUTH==

we drifted through it, arguing.

every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom.

we sat down together and wrote it in one room,

and then sat down in a different room, recording.

NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall; what context?; what broken melody?

and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile.

the sun setting above beds of ash

while we sat together, arguing.

the old world order barely pretended to care.

this new century will be crueler still.

war is coming.

don’t give up.

pick a side.

hang on.

love.

GY!BE

PACKAGING NOTES

CREDITS

godspeed you black emperor is/was/is =

Thierry Amar – electric bass + contrebasse
David Bryant – electric guitar + tape loops
Aidan Girt – drums
Timothy Herzog – drums + glockenspiel
Efrim Manuel Menuck – electric guitar + tape loops
Michael Moya – electric guitar
Mauro Pezzente – electric bass
Sophie Trudeau – violin
Karl Lemieux + Philippe Léonard – 16mm film projections

all of it recorded at thee mighty hotelatango winter of bombs 2024.
engineered + mixed by Jace Lasek.
mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market.

front cover photo by Stacy Lee.
voice on "raindrops cast in lead" = Michele Fiedler Fuentes.

thanks: Sam T, Rainer, John + Ryan, cst, Shaun, Jem, Yann.