“NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”
by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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2024 Top 20
Adam WoodGY!BE last made my list back in 2012: a seventh place inclusion for their fourth record, Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! In my write-up for that album—a record I still return to with relative frequency—I praised the Montrealers for their considered approach to building truly epic pieces, such as the 20-minute masterpiece ‘Mladic’. There are equally ambitious and panoramic tracks here on album number eight, which arrived quite late in the year, and reserved itself a list spot on first listen alone.
The core of Godspeed’s sound is the dynamics by which they build from quieter moments into cataclysm. The tone of those passages can vary, but—despite the stark contextual reminder of a title—this record leans more often towards the hopeful (or possibly conciliatory) than it does towards darkness. Consider the wall-of-sound built across the second half of ‘RAINDROPS CAST IN LEAD’, which slowly but surely overwhelms (and then incorporates) a mournful solo violin.
As with their earlier LPs, “NO TITLE… very much feels as though it’s intended to be experienced as a whole, and at the time of writing, I’ve only made the complete hour-long trip a handful of times. I’ve little doubt, however, that this will be a record I return to plenty in the coming years, and it may well climb in my estimation.
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Best of '24
Laker Turner"NO REVIEW AS OF 08 DECEMBER 2024 44,644+ DEAD"
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2024: Some Favs
Darby Dixon IIIWeird vibe for feel-good album of the year, but here we are.
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