GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR 'G_D'S PEE AT STATE'S END!' LP + 10" EP

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR GOD'S PEE AT STATE'S END! LABEL: CONSTELLATION Double vinyl edition is audiophile 180gram LP + 10” pressed at Optimal (Germany) in gatefold jacket w/ thermographic print, colour flood interior, artworked inners and DL card. (note: we also have Godspeed's older LPs for sale ) RELEASE DATE: APR 02, 2021 GYBE 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. Just 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 Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven . 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 F#A#∞ also makes a reappearance on the inside gatefold drawing, in recurrent homage to the electrified hilltop landmark crucifix of the band’s Montréal hometown. STATE’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. Thanks for listening. OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN. (R.I.P. D.H.) god’s pee was: Aidan Girt – sitting drums and standing drums David Bryant – electric guitars, mg-1 Efrim Manuel Menuck – electric guitars, op-1, radios Mauro Pezzente – electric bass Michael Moya – electric guitars Sophie Trudeau – violins and organ Thierry Amar – electric bass and upright bass Timothy Herzog – sitting drums and standing drums, glockenspiel Karl Lemieux and Philippe Leonard – 16mm projections Recorded and mixed by Jace Lasek. Tracked live at Thee Mighty Motel2Tango, 6-11 Oct 2020. Edits and overdubs 12-18 Oct 2020. Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket. Illustrations by William Schmiechen. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, PRODUCTS MAY VARY FROM IMAGE MOCK-UP.