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Yanqui Uxo by: Godspeed You Black Emperor List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £10.98 You Save: £3.01 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0666561002428 Label: Constellation Manufacturer: Constellation Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Constellation Release Date: November 04, 2002 Studio: Constellation Sales Rank: 13856 MPN: 24 Disc 1: Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Montreal-based anarchist collective Godspeed You Black Emperor are responsible for making some of the most awe-inspiring symphonic music of the last decade--but on their fourth record, Yanqui U.X.O, it sounds as if the wind in their sails has dropped from a gale to a breeze. By no means has their resolve faltered: Godspeed are still dedicated to autonomy from a music industry they view as corrupt--witness the sleeve of Yanqui U.X.O, which features a pen-scrawled chart that financially links major record labels to arms manufacturers and the American military itself. But the music here--recorded, for the first time, with Chicago-based producer Steve Albini--lacks the inspiring climaxes and dramatic manifestos that characterised the band's earlier works. The second movement of "09-15-00" displays a serene, windswept beauty. But all too often, individual instruments--celestial guitar roar, keening violin, martial drum signatures--aren't given enough space to breathe, gelling into one characterless drone. And with no atmospheric field recordings to section up its five plodding orchestral passages, Yanqui U.X.O begins to feel like an awfully long 75 minutes. Only the closing "Motherfucker = Redeemer" finds the band hitting their stride, but by then, you're mute with surprise that Godspeed have turned out an album that's anything other than totally excellent. --Louis Pattison Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - It ain't heavy, it's....There's no doubt these guys can make moving music that has real depth and feeling that will take months if not years to explore properly.... just beware. I want to add another perspective to the reviews your reading I stumbled across these guys through Listmania recommendations and probably, like you reading this now, thought this may just be your nirvana. In some ways it may well be, but expectation can disappoint. Post-rock sure is a broad cloak worn by many, so what you must know is that, in my opinion, one thing this is not is heavy. Many reviews talk about the quiet then loud approach, the light then dark, the distorted guitars, the apocolyptic climaxes etc etc. In fact these guys seem over and over to be referred ... Read More: Rating: - Rockets Fall on Nay-Sayers!RI am an admirer of all Godspeed's albums but I left purchasing `Yanqui UXO' until last, not through any desire for chronology but simply because I had perceived from reviews that this was the band's weakest effort. Just goes to show how wrong you can be. `Yanqui UXO' shows the band to be in blistering form. This is by far their tightest and most cohesive effort yet. Gone are the spoken word samples that permeate all of their other recordings. These are a matter of taste, but in my opinion they detracted from the quality and focus of some of the material on `Lift Your Skinny Fists..', for example. Guitars are more to the fore here, distorted to a greater extent than previously (perhaps showing the influence of Albini at the ... Read More: Rating: - Hmmm... it's different, I'll give it thatOkay, I won't bore you by saying things like "This album is definitely different" (i've done enough of that in the review title), because that's what's been said in pretty much every review here. So what I'm going to do is try and explain why it's different. Maybe then you'll get an idea of what the music's like (Of course, this is kind of dependant on you being familiar with Godspeed's earlier work). First, and most noticable, the voice samples are competely gone. This means that any "message" being put into the music has to be put across entirely by the music. Not a major loss, but I always enjoyed listening to the voices and contemplating any messages that they might put across. Second, there's a lot more distortion ... Read More: Rating:  - An astonishing recording - embarassingly good.This album certainly doesn't make for easy listening so it's definitely not one to soothe or relax. Perhaps it has its quiter, calmer moments, but on the whole this is an album to grab you and shake you with the force of a tornado. This ain't sweet or romantic business that speaks of heartbreak either, unless heartbeak be seen in cosmic proportions. This is somber, heavy music on the less optimistic side - it inneffably speaks about pain and sadness and injustice in the world (see bombs on cover, and politicized inner sleeve notes) and it does so through such intense a material and on such gradiose a scale that it can hardly be listened to in one go. But this is hardly the artists' fault, and one can only admire the force of this legendary instrumental ... Read More: Rating: - music par excellance!!!!Very very interesting music. Montreal at its finest. It builds up slowly like a crescendo. Reminds me of Moris Ravel (in rock form). Very good I recommend it to all. |
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