Godspeed You! Black Emporer - Yanqui U.X.O. (Black Vinyl)

Godspeed You! Black Emporer - Yanqui U.X.O. (Black Vinyl)U. X. O. is unexploded ordnance is landmines is cluster bombs. Yanqui is post colonial imperialism is international police state is multinational corporate oligarchy. Godspeed You! Black Emperor is complicit is guilty is resisting. The new album is just raw, angry, dissonant, epic instrumental rock. Recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago and mixed by Howard Bilerman and Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the original Hotel2Tango in

and Kim Deal's sugar-and-sandpaper vocals and steady basslines — arrives fully formed on songs like the bouncy

Days was recorded over the course of five patient months in a remote New Paltz

his music has never before sounded so warm and immediate

'celebration rock' includes the excellent 2010 single 'younger us'

On additional production is longtime shifu and collaborator Dan Carey

As time passes

Before they were a band

Whilst the album is warm and spacious with layers of live instrumentation

A seminal American band

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but there’s a sense of instrumental control that matches the sweet murk of his vocals (not that he always remembers to exercise control on stage

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