- Record Label: Constellation
- Release Date: Oct 16, 2012
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Dec 21, 2012Godspeed You! Black Emperor offer a majestic, beautiful coda for a version of protest that is dated and unhelpful today. I missed having their music around, but I wonder whose eyes they're opening with a record that sounds like a document of yesterday's anger.
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Q MagazineDec 11, 2012Such willful awkwardness means they're never likely to rise above cult status, but this is still a very welcome form. [Jan 2013, p.105]
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The WireDec 7, 2012As it is, it's a new Godspeed album and it's a good one, but when you have set your standards as high as they have, it can only seem like a failure. [Nov 2012, p.59]
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Nov 15, 2012The album wears thin in totality, but has isolated moments: entrances and releases and dropouts.
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Nov 15, 2012It's all a bit "junior school music project" at times, and there's nothing John Cale wasn't doing half a century ago, but it's nevertheless an impressive work.
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Positive: 64 out of 68
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Mixed: 2 out of 68
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Negative: 2 out of 68
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Dec 17, 2012
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Dec 9, 2012At a time where post-rock is more a joke than a reputable genre, Godspeed You! Black Emperor return from Valhalla to show the world how it