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Saw them the other night. What's their best stuff?

In reply to Flinticus:

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven and F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity are my favourites. Don't know the recent stuff as well.

In reply to Flinticus:

V jealous. 'Lift your skinny fists' is terrific. Allelujah is the other one I have, which is good but not as good as skinny fists.

In reply to Flinticus:
Lift your skinny fists... for me too. That bit with the violins and the spoken word "it takes dedication, it takes a death..." is just absolutely gripping.

Saw them live in Leeds a couple of years ago; they were brilliant. I didn't know whether to dance, close my eyes and listen, or rock out. It was just ace.

In reply to Flinticus:

I like You! black emperor

In reply to Flinticus:

the Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada ep is a great introduction.

Raise Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is definitely their best album (although they are all worthwhile).

I also really like the first A Silver Mount Zion album - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners Of Our Rooms. They're a (less epic) side project of Efrim and a few others from Godspeed. Not really ever got into their more recent stuff, but maybe that's just me.

In reply to Mr Fuller:


F#A#oo and Lift Your Skinny Fists... and the mini-album Slow Riot For New Zero Kaneda. Agree re that section of Lift Your... - there's a ten minute spell where, instead of the usual noise-terrorism, there is a simple, lilting violin tune - like a musical folk tale or nursery rhyme; nearly always makes me well up (only comparable tune that comes to mind is Helicon by Mogwai).

In reply to Flinticus:

Was that in Glasgow?

In reply to aln:

Yeah, at the ABC

You there? Who was the support? Really liked them too.

In reply to victim of mathematics:

I've got two Silver Mount Zion albums and saw them play about 3 years ago. That's why I decided to go see Godspeed YBE. The connection is evident in the music.

In reply to Mr Fuller:

I did that close your eyes thing and get pulled away on a current of music.

In reply to Flinticus:

Completely forgot about that band! I remember going to the music shop in Chatham on the train as a kid and buying a copy of the album with a picture of bombs falling on the front. I must have been about 14, and was usually either listening to them, Mogwai or Explosions in the Sky.

Might look them up later, rekindle an favourite!

In reply to Flinticus:

Maybe this will help:

http://www.muessentials.com/2012/04/flowchart-godspeed-you-black-emperor.ht...

In reply to Flinticus:



No. Didn't know they were playing or I would have been.

In reply to Flinticus:

Never heard them before (had always assumed from the name that they were some flavour of metal) so listening on Spotify... with the aid of the flowchart above I have landed on F/A/inf as being the only one that I find listenable right now. It seems to have some melody to the instrumental parts whereas the others seem very ambient and repetitive. Am I missing something?

In reply to Flinticus:

Have another vote for Skinny Fists.

In reply to Oujmik:

Ha! I always thought they would be too metal as well, until makin the connection with Silver Mout Zion. Can't comment on their albums: I've only heard them live and they had a more sophisticated, nuanced 'post-rock' vibe. I don't mind repetitive (if it builds, mutates) though not too keen on 'ambient'.