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G_d's Pee at State's End

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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The decaying final piece is called "OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN," underlining the premise of the album, and indeed the group's entire body of work. There is still beauty and hope in this world, and...

G_d's Pee at State's End

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Awards:

The decaying final piece is called "OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN," underlining the premise of the album, and indeed the group's entire body of work. There is still beauty and hope in this world, and...

About

we wrote it on the road mostly. when that was still a place.

and then recorded it in masks later, distanced at the beginning of the second wave.

it was autumn, and the falling sun was impossibly fat and orange.

we tried to summon a brighter reckoning there,

bent beneath varied states of discomfort, worry and wonderment.

we fired up the shortwave radios again, for the first time in a long time.

and found that many things had changed.

the apocalypse pastors were still there, but yelling END TIMES NOW where they once yelled "end times soon".

and the transmission-detritus of automated militaries takes up more bandwidth now,

so that a lot of frequencies are just pulses of rising white static,

digital codexes announcing the status of various watching and killing machines.

and the ham-radio dads talk to each other all night long.

about their dying wives and what they ate for lunch and what they'll do with their guns when antifa comes.

this record is about all of us waiting for the end.

all current forms of governance are failed.

this record is about all of us waiting for the beginning,

and is informed by the following demands=

empty the prisons

take power from the police and give it to the neighbourhoods that they terrorise.

end the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.

tax the rich until they're impoverished.

much love to all the other lost and lovely ones,

these are death-times and our side has to win.

we'll see you on the road once the numbers fall.

xoxoxox god's pee

montreal, quebec, kanada

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  • G_d's Pee at State's End

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  • AllMusic
    Editor's Choice
    April 2021

The decaying final piece is called "OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN," underlining the premise of the album, and indeed the group's entire body of work. There is still beauty and hope in this world, and it is absolutely imperative to keep fighting, at all costs.

5th April 2021

It’s not so much that Canada’s greatest post-rock outfit have turned heel and made a Sigur Ros record, far from it. The album’s second track, 'Fire at Static Valley', opens with ambulance sirens and builds layer after layer of sombre guitar and mournful strings, transforming into a funeral march. Similarly, the opening passage of “Government Came…” is unmistakably sorrowful, all wailing violins and slow, heavy drums. But then the guitars come in, and things start to get a bit brighter. The strings sound merely melancholic now, and there’s some more shimmer on the reverb. Within a few minutes, the band approaches the soaring, uplifting heights of what’s still arguably their opus, 2000’s Lift Your Skinny Fists…
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