- Record Label: Kranky
- Release Date: Sep 12, 2000
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Universal acclaim- based on 214 Ratings
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Positive: 192 out of 214
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Mixed: 2 out of 214
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Negative: 20 out of 214
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Nov 23, 2022it’s more like an experience than music. I didn’t even like this album the first time I listened to it, but now it’s one of my favorites of all time.
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Nov 13, 2021Refined sprawling instrumental rock for the ages. Despite it's long runtime it goes by exceptionally fast. Full of many small details that reward repeated listens. A masterpiece. Timeless.
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Apr 3, 2021
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Aug 31, 2020amazing album, their best album and one of the best ever, it's breathtakingly beautiful
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May 11, 2020They don't sleep anymore on the beach.
Best Tracks: Storm, Static, Sleep
Worst Tracks: uhh....... I guess Like Antennas to Heaven? It's still an amazing track -
Jan 5, 2020Possibly my all-time favorite record. I just can't get away from it. the two songs (movements really) that have impacted me the very most are Storm, with it's crushing and eerie closing section with audio static and an old piano, and Sleep, with it's other worldly climaxes and bleak opening.
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Sep 19, 2019This is the best album of all times, it feels so apocalyptic but at the same time full with hope, i simply, can't explain how much i love this album and how GY!BE changed my life and the way i see music. just listen to this album, F♯ A♯ ∞ and Yanqui U.X.O and you can tell by yourself how beautiful this band is. Best band ever and best album ever.
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Mar 11, 2019Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is orchestral, beautiful, weird and original.
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Dec 19, 2016It takes time to get into this one. First listen, you'll be lost. But you'll be lost in something beautiful, in a journey like no other. This album is a masterpiece.
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Nov 14, 2016This is my second opinion on Metacritic. I do not usually put these types of ratings and I promise not to do anymore but this record deserves the highest possible rating.
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Apr 8, 2016Amazing album! If I could give this album higher than a 10, I would. I finally listened to this album after hearing so much good stuff about it, and it was literally jaw-droppingly amazing!
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Jul 29, 2015
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Mar 19, 2015Perfect album. Captures emotion so well. Feel everything from tension to uplift. From tragedy to excitement. This album has lasted 15 years easily and is a modern masterpiece.
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Jun 17, 2014This record makes sweet love with my ears. "Gathering Storm" is outstanding. Efrim Menuck and co. managed to make a record that sounds amazing every time you hear it.
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Apr 17, 2013If there is any word that best sums up this album, it's "Monumental". I've almost never heard a more complex and fascinating record in my life. You'll notice something every listen. Even the static and ambiance will grow on you like crazy.
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Apr 3, 2013A truly intense, remarkable music experience, perfect in its own way and genre. /Reminds me of Syberberg's films somehow, especially Hitler: A Film from Germany/
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Oct 26, 2012
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Oct 15, 2012Absolutely mind blowing. GY!BE is able to craft some of the most intense, beautiful, and melancholy tracks ever recorded. A must own for anyone with an open mind and a penchant for plain good music.
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LukeCAug 16, 2009This album is unlike any other. It is utterly timeless, an instant masterpiece and clearly will always be a masterpiece. Having this album feels like an honour.
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FrankCJan 31, 2008I had this composition for at least three now and evertime I listen to it a new layer of it is discovered. I usually stop dead in my tracks when it kicks in. Great music and blows away guest when they least expect it
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iiJan 11, 2008I fell asleep while listening
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friedchickenOct 14, 2007How can something be beautiful/hopeful yet be apocalyptic staffan? anyways, great album. best post rock album ever.
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ChrisROct 6, 2007Holy crap! It's Sigur Ros on heroin! (Or should I say more heroin???) Way to go you crazy French Canucks!
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StaffanSep 6, 2007The most beautiful, apocalyptic and hopeful record ever made. The record really helps when the world just feels cold. This is gonna be my favourite album forever and ever.
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naveedSultanJul 9, 2007I can't figure out why everyone thinks this album is mind blowing, I honestly beleive it's waaaaaay behind Sigur Ros and Explosions in the Sky. I don't think i'll be able to grow into it.
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DavidCJul 6, 2007Just the most astonishingly beautiful album ever released.
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ArmandTNov 5, 2006Perhaps the greatest album of all time. There is no other band like Godspeed and there never will be.
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JonLNov 4, 2006Oh man, albums like this are what make wading through hours of modern indie rock mediocrity worth the plunge. Full of eerie dissonance, deeply moving sections of pure, organic, rollicking emotion, and a bottomless melancholy both hopeful and apocalyptic, nostalgic and foreboding. Insanely, insanely beautiful and human. Possibly the album of the decade.
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AViewAMNov 2, 2006I'd been listening to this album in awe for two straight years. Then I saw it on vinyl in a little record store in Victoria. Needless to say, I snapped it up. Best. Album. Ever.
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KanadaSep 7, 2006One of those albums that, if people had any taste, would be lauded for years with all sorts of musical, personal, and even spiritual accolades. "Transcendent" is not too strong a word to describe it.
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BBAug 12, 2006I've never felt so moved by instrumental music. It continually surprises me and makes my body churn with inspiration each time I listen.
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bendFeb 15, 2006extreamly emotional and moving. however, its not perfect. the songs tend to spend too much time building up and the payoffs are over much too quickly. despite this fact, this is still very beautiful and needs to be listened to by everyone who enjoys music.
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chadnDec 16, 2005i have been listening to this CD for two years and it never gets old.
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ZapManNov 16, 2005The GREATEST record of all time. Sleep is the simply the best "song" in the universe. I just can't live without this truly exceptional work of art.
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IsraelBOct 16, 2005Breathtaking beautiful.
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DaniiCApr 19, 2005It's ridiculous, indescribably beautiful, and something that must be checked out by the individual. reccommended by a friend with excellent taste ^__~
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JoeFeb 18, 2005A very awesome indeed. I have heard a lot of claims that Godspeed is rather pretentious. I don't think this can be true because they are so loyal to their beliefs and would never sell out.
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damonJun 20, 2004perfect! nothing else to say.
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BenjaminBunnyJun 8, 2004The defining instrumental rock LP that no one will ever top. Listen and be blown away.
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woMay 9, 200410 it!!
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robertomOct 24, 2003this is the most increadible album ever made by these guys!!!
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DanG.Sep 19, 2002This album makes me want to cry... pure beauty and horror over 80 minutes.
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ChrissyF.Aug 17, 2002This is post rock at its best. I cannot find a single flaw .. it is almost too good to be heavenly.
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nicom.Dec 14, 2001i am very critic about music but this is soooooooooooo good en full of brilliant stuff: this is music in his strict form and a standard for other POST-ROCK bands after MOGWAI WE HAVE A TRUE WINNER.
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JamesR.Nov 7, 2001listen
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SteveC.Oct 14, 2001In a thousand years, music will sound like this. in a million years, the world will sound like this.
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PauvoB.Aug 14, 2001One of the best albums ever made! This is what music is all about.
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Godspeed's records will either blow your head off or leave you shrugging, depending on where your personal quest for freedom is taking you.
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Unwinds slowly, slipping between ghosted noise-and-field-recording passages and the sustained explosions of big, bombastic caterwaul that have become Godspeed's signature sound.
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Not only has the group taken their sound and refined it even more, but even the ambient soundscapes and parts between the actual songs are more well constructed.