Explosive but also expressive innovation by the returning veteran Canadian post-rockers, with a title that explicitly references the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, but on a larger scale expresses an apocalyptic vision through some extraordinary experiment and scale. Six substantial tracks of extraordinary sounds from skilful and dynamic guitar, industrial hiss, distant bombs, crashing buildings, sirens - all very stormy, stirring, emotional, expertly layered with a powerful build. From the strangely beautiful Sun Is A Hole Sun Is Vapors through the repeating motifs of Raindrops Cast in Lead, to gentler closer Grey Rubble, Green Shoots, featuring violin by Sophie Trudeau, and one evoking the idea of “every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom”. This is stark at times but very stirring, challenging, but enormous powerful, almost tearjerking work, every track a post-rock symphony of huge power as well as tenderness. One of their very best of the last three decades. Out on Constellation Records.
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