The Montreal post-rockers return with their seventh and among their best to date, expressing the all the doom and the defiance of recent times, using field recordings, atmospheric orchestration, drone sounds, swingtime crescendos, and rich layers towers of distorted clarion sound. The album is designed as two sides with continuous listens. Godspeed have been around for 25 years, and and have never been hesitant to express their disdain and disapproval of the actions of politicians, police and corporations with titles A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) with its launch countdown and disturbing space sounds moving into mournful distorted guitar and orchestral strings, First of the Last Glaciers, obviously a lament to eco meltdown, and "Government Came" (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) also unambiguous in this respect. But the sheer scope and beauty of their captures both that as well as a sense of triumphant joy and transcendent escapism. Cliffs Gaze / cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE is an example with extraordinary shift to defiantly uplifting brass sounds and defiant slow orchestral melancholy of final track OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.). Recorded and mixed by Jace Lasek, the veteran award-winning indie producer (and co-founder of The Besnard Lakes), it’s a release of uncompromising proportions in which each listen brings greater emotions and experiences. Out on Constellation and also via their Bandcamp page.
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