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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
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Universal acclaim- based on 214 Ratings

  • Summary: The second proper album from the Canadian instrumentalists consists of four independent works(each 18-22 minutes long).... yes, that's 2 songs per CD.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Alternative Press
    100
    A massive instrumental effort, as skilled and musical as it is on-the-fly improvised and messy. Seamlessly blending sonic experiments with live group interactions, godspeed saunter through these four extended pieces with ease. [#150, p.94]
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  2. Splendid
    90
    Essentially, you get one disc on which Godspeed You Black Emperor tinkers with their sound a little bit, and one on which they deliver exactly what you've been expecting. That's a good mix.
  3. Almost Cool
    90
    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.
  4. MTV.com
    80
    From the double album's first echoes of guitar and strings to its droning denouement, godspeed you black emperor! creates a musical soundscape that alternates between flashes of sonic brilliance and moments of quiet ecstasy.
  5. Village Voice
    80
    Godspeed's records will either blow your head off or leave you shrugging, depending on where your personal quest for freedom is taking you.
  6. The A.V. Club
    80
    Godspeed's 1999 knockout Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada EP is a more manageable dose for beginners, but music this audacious and ambitious needs to be heard regardless of the challenges it presents.
  7. The Wire
    50
    On earlier releases, the traces of anger, sorrow or despair rippling through the found voices seeded roaring rock improvisations that empathetically rooted and resisted the calamities visited upon them. But the improvising on [Skinny Fists] falls within beat parameters too tightly determined to generate any really useful dissonance. [#200, p.66]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 47
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 47
  3. Negative: 1 out of 47
  1. ZapMan
    Nov 16, 2005
    10
    The GREATEST record of all time. Sleep is the simply the best "song" in the universe. I just can't live without this truly exceptional The 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.… Expand
  2. wo
    May 9, 2004
    10
    10 it!!
  4. LukeC
    Aug 16, 2009
    10
    This album is unlike any other. It is utterly timeless, an instant masterpiece and clearly will always be a masterpiece. Having this album This 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.… Expand
  5. JonL
    Nov 4, 2006
    10
    Oh man, albums like this are what make wading through hours of modern indie rock mediocrity worth the plunge. Full of eerie dissonance, Oh 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.… Expand
  6. Gibbous
    May 11, 2020
    10
    They don't sleep anymore on the beach.

    Best Tracks: Storm, Static, Sleep Worst Tracks: uhh....... I guess Like Antennas to Heaven? It's    They 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    … Expand
  7. BenjaminBunny
    Jun 8, 2004
    10
    The defining instrumental rock LP that no one will ever top. Listen and be blown away.
  8. naveedSultan
    Jul 9, 2007
    3
    I can't figure out why everyone thinks this album is mind blowing, I honestly beleive it's waaaaaay behind Sigur Ros and Explosions I 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.… Expand

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