G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!

by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 April 2021
  • Label: Constellation
  • Country: Canada
  • Community rating: 3.87/5 from 30 ratings

Artists on this release: Michael Moya, Sophie Trudeau, Efrim Menuck, Aidan Girt, David Bryant, Mauro Pezzente, Thierry Amar, Timothy Herzog

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!' is structured into two side-long suites and two shorter pieces, marking a return to the band's earlier compositional forms. The album reintroduces found sound recordings, weaving shortwave radio chatter and gunfire into dense, crescendo-heavy arrangements of layered guitars, basses, and strings. This sonic palette creates a dynamic shift between moments of stark tension and passages of triumphant, cathartic release, reflecting the album's thematic undercurrent of political resistance and defiant hope in a failed state.

Genres

Descriptors: political, atmospheric, crescendo, instrumental, protest

Tracklist

  1. A Military Alphabet (Five Eyes All Blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job's Lament / First Of The Last Glaciers / Where We Break How We Shine (Rockets For Mary)
  2. Fire At Static Valley
  3. "Government Came" (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) / Cliffs Gaze / Cliffs' Gaze At Empty Waters' Rise / Ashes To Sea Or Nearer To Thee
  4. Our Side Has To Win (For D.H.)

Credits

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