- Record Label: Constellation
- Release Date: Oct 16, 2012
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Universal acclaim- based on 68 Ratings
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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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Apr 25, 2013Life in a soundtrack. There are the drones and then there are the pieces that sound like classic Godspeed doing there dark yet sentimental look on the world. This album has beauty. It has strength. Most of all though it has you, its listener who it will toy with until its very end...
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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
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Dec 14, 2021Spellbinding four tracks that take you on a dark 53min journey down decay,solitude and loneliness. Watching a documentary about social decline whilst numb and scrolling through your iphone,barely paying attention to either action.
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Jan 5, 2020This challenging and bleak record has one of the most gripping and brilliant opening tracks I've ever heard. Besides Lift Your Skinny Fists, I think this is their best record to date.
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Jan 2, 2013This isn't the sound of a once-renowned band trying to cash in on their glory days; it's the sound of a band invigorated.
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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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MojoDec 17, 2012Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! feels simultaneously enormous and tragic; the sound of victory, firmly set in the jaws of defeat. [Jan 2013, p.91]