- Record Label: Constellation
- Release Date: Jan 21, 2014
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Feb 5, 2014On Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything, Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra sound more vital and musical than ever.
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Jan 21, 2014Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything is the most personal outcry of righteous indignation they've mustered. The result is something for a broader audience of like-minded people constantly muttering 'What the fuck?' at the world at large to connect with.
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Jan 17, 2014We emerge from the album into the cold light of day somewhat dazed and maybe even a little overwhelmed, but in no doubt of the incendiary power of what has just been experienced.
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Jan 16, 2014Fans expecting moving, but wearily delivered, post-rock may be disappointed with that position, but it may just have seen Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra produce a classic. At the very least it is the culmination of a discography that has always been leading to this as its high point.
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Feb 4, 2014Echoing themes that bubble beneath the surface of all his work both with TSMZ and Godspeed, Menuck spins vitriol and tenderness, desperation and hope into a narrative that is both vivid and somewhat frightening.
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Jan 16, 2014Age and time haven’t withered the power of Thee Silver Mt. Zion; if anything, this five-piece incarnation of the band has distilled all that free-jazz/post-rock/orchestral/folk/punk/metal influence into a record that’s the best work the Canadians have produced to date.
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Jan 22, 2014The band sounds more energized than they have in years.
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MojoJan 23, 2014This is a powerful collection of contemporary battle hymns that rings out lie a well-needed musical call to arms for the 99 per cent. [Feb 2014, p.88]
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Jan 23, 2014Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything finds the Orchestra in combative mood, kicking against the economic ills of the western world and delivering a terminal prognosis for global democracy as a whole. More importantly, and as dogmatic and stubborn as ever, they continue to do what they do best; enjoying making a wonderful racket.
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Jan 22, 2014Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra’s proto-punk only gets better with age and maturity, but Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything believes that today’s youth are everything for tomorrow.
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Jan 21, 2014The album is less concerned with asserting a specific worldview than examining the difficulties of keeping one’s moral compass steady in a society that’s becoming ever-more indifferent to the things you value--and how one must remain all the more resolute once kids enter the picture.
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Jan 21, 2014Two thirds of the way in, the earth-shattering basslines make their way into the track, managing to reign in that sense of initial chaos, holding everything together and potently reminding any doubters that the trio--Efrim Menuck, Thierry Amar and Sophie Trudeau--have lost none of their sense of the epic.
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Jan 21, 2014Silver Mt. Zion (now a quintet) extract so much harried beauty and grace out of the world’s sorry predicament that it seems unbelievable that they wouldn’t be dispossessing themselves of something if all their/our problems were magically solved one day.
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Jan 16, 2014It comes into the world jubilantly, then spends the next forty minutes kicking and screaming against your ideas of what you can landscape it against. It dies with a characteristically quick whimper. No cheap shots against Explosions in the Sky, I promise, but that’s not pretty. It is beautiful.
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Jan 16, 2014More than just another post-whatever crescendo generator, SMZ remain committed to nuance and subtlety while no less committed to getting louder.
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Feb 13, 2014There are wonderfully soft moments, too, the vocal counterpoints of “Little Ones Run” are delightful, but ultimately the collective exists for noise, which is demonstrated beautifully and impressively.
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Feb 14, 2014Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything explores the moral murk of our times with glorious abandon.
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UncutFeb 3, 2014A focus on electric violin adds a mildly jarring echo of Curved Air to the Canadians' seventh, but the apocalyptic "Austerity Blues" and wistful "Rains Thru The Roof At Thee Grande Ballroom" encompass their extremes of post-rock paranoia and Popol Vuh transcendence. [Mar 2014, p.83]
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Jan 24, 2014Despite the need for a few edits, there’s an earnestness permeating Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything that becomes infectious.
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Jan 21, 2014It’s a moving record. The only catch is, when they turn down the intensity on ‘What We Loved Was Not Enough’ they sound like Arcade Fire at their most mawkish.
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Jan 17, 2014There’s a vision and attention to detail here that’s led to an decidedly individual record that, like a new love, shares a little more with you whenever you spend some time together.
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Jan 16, 2014Efrim Menuck's voice remains an acquired taste.
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Jan 21, 2014It’s both mesmerically appealing and cacophonously repellent, a paradoxical blend repeated in the shrill, thrumming monotony of “Austerity Blues”.
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Feb 4, 2014The problem is that the vocals sound generic.
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Jan 31, 2014It has all their trademarks--simultaneously elaborate and raw, idiosyncratically punk-rock, dedicated to chronicling the unrelenting ugliness of western society--but this time little of it sticks.
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The WireJan 29, 2014If music is ever really going to change the world, it's going to need more vigour and vitality than this. [Jan 2014, p.66]
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