We don’t have much time for mythology, but we’d be lying if we said the return of Godspeed You! Black Emperor in 2010 didn’t signify a whole lot to us as a marker from which to look back on the past decade, to reflect on what’s been gained or lost within the confines of independent music culture and what’s been gained or lost in the socio-political landscape writ large. Accompanied by the new drones (stitched into the album sequence on CD cut separately on their own 7″ for the LP version), GYBE have offered up a fifth album that we feel is as absolutely vital, virulent, honest and heavy as anything in their discography. The new album presents the fruits of that labour: evolved and definitive versions of two huge compositions previously known to fans as “Albanian” and “Gamelan”, now properly titled as “MLADIC” and “WE DRIFT LIKE WORRIED FIRE” respectively. Having emerged from hiatus at the end of 2010, GYBE picked up right where they left off, immediately re-capturing the sound and material that had fallen dormant in 2003 and driving it forward with every show of their extensive touring over the last 18 months. Featuring two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music and two six-and-a-half minute drones, ‘ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND! provides soaring, shining proof of the band’s powerful return to form. We are proud to announce the first new recordings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor in a decade. 'Allelujah! is Godspeed's most evenhanded, accessible release to date, balancing the two styles they're famed for: the kind of emotional gallops found on Lift Your Skinny Fists and the sheer oblivion of their early material." – Slant "They can still create movements that trample your heart and then gather up the pieces and hand them back to you healed.
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Sa musique exigeante se révèle du coup plus concrète, et donc plus accessible. "The Montreal-based collective lets its muse speak and follows its purest impulses, and the result is music of raw power and uncompromising integrity." – Textura The Godspeed ethos of wordlessly eliciting universal truths is remains as devastatingly effective as ever." – The Guardian "A decade on from their split, this Montreal collective still sound like nothing else… It's beautiful, thrilling and exhausting. And it's easier to find transcendence in the desolation, to get hypnotized by a single note, or get lost in rearranging the four vinyl sides into your own personal manifesto. "Godspeed is all about wide-open spaces here. "Godspeed have once again created a challenging, intense, evocative work, worthy of their canon." – BBC Music Du grand Godspeed (…) On ne cesse de vibrer à une intensité grand I" – La Presse "If Godspeed around the turn of the millennium felt like a band of the moment, now, in a time of rapid cultural turnover and bite-sized music consumption, they feel out of step in a very necessary way." – Pitchfork (9.3, Best New Music)
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