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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

by: Godspeed You Black Emperor

Release Date December 01, 2003
This music is generally catorised as "post rock"; in fact it has nothing to do with rock. From a theory perspective this is music which explores the concept of "less is more" - it's a kind of minimalism that is exploring similar ground to many modern classical composers who have pared music down to a few key components and frequently dispense with rhythm, melody and other conventions of music. There is a strand in modern classical music referred to as "sacred minimalism" which seeks to make this approach listenable and take it beyond the fringe of pure creativity. I think that this is where GYBE is probing.

For me - and having auditioned this music on numerous occasions - this production fails on all counts; there is simply so ... Read More: