{"product_id":"cst156-godspeed-you-black-emperor-g-ds-pee-at-states-end","title":"CST156 Godspeed You! Black Emperor | G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ewe wrote it on the road mostly. when that was still a place.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand then recorded it in masks later, distanced at the beginning of the second wave.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eit was autumn, and the falling sun was impossibly fat and orange.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewe tried to summon a brighter reckoning there,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ebent beneath varied states of discomfort, worry and wonderment.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewe fired up the shortwave radios again, for the first time in a long time.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand found that many things had changed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethe apocalypse pastors were still there, but yelling END TIMES NOW where they once yelled \"end times soon\".\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand the transmission-detritus of automated militaries takes up more bandwidth now,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eso that a lot of frequencies are just pulses of rising white static,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edigital codexes announcing the status of various watching and killing machines.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand the ham-radio dads talk to each other all night long.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eabout their dying wives and what they ate for lunch and what they'll do with their guns when antifa comes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethis record is about all of us waiting for the end.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eall current forms of governance are failed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethis record is about all of us waiting for the beginning,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand is informed by the following demands=\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eempty the prisons\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003etake power from the police and give it to the neighbourhoods that they terrorise.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eend the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003etax the rich until they're impoverished.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003emuch love to all the other lost and lovely ones,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ethese are death-times and our side has to win.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewe'll see you on the road once the numbers fall.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003exoxoxox god's pee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003emontreal, quebec, kanada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1 march, 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGYBE 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSlow Riot For New Zero Kanada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eF#A#∞\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e also makes a reappearance on the inside gatefold drawing, in recurrent homage to the electrified hilltop landmark crucifix of the band’s Montréal hometown.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSTATE’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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThanks for listening. OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN. (R.I.P. 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