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For the last two years or so, Godspeed You Black Emperor has been my favorite band. It’s actually starting to creep me out, if only because I don’t have favorites in any other areas that have remained favorites for so long. But still they remain, probably because they offer some distinctive mix of something that’s hard enough to put your finger on, much less recreate under any other setting. That may have been why the band was put on semi-permanent hiatus in 2003, and why the efforts of that group since through the band A Silver Mt. Zion have been quite different (featuring lyrics, amongst other differences).
Either way, something special happened during that time of less than a decade where GYBE counted itself as whole. Here’s one of their studio recordings, consisting of material that eventually debuted in a somewhat different form on their album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.
[audio:godspeed_you_black_emperor-hungover.mp3]
Tags: Music