Top Albums of The Decade #10
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven! (2000)
This album is the be all and end all of post-rock. Nothing else sounded like it before it existed, and everything else sounded like it after its release. It’s a testament to the significance of the record and unfortunately also a reflection of how bland the genre has become. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists laid the groundwork for what would become hallmarks of post-rock – quiet passages of ambient noise with a smattering of melancholic guitar, increasingly swelling strings, grand trumpets, marching drums heralding the end of the world, guitars now generating walls of feedback, then everything comes together and builds up to the point of rapture and … all quiet again. It’s formulaic, but Godspeed did it first and did it the best.
‘Sleep’ (excerpt)
One Response to “Top Albums of The Decade #10”
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alena Says:
February 24th, 2010 at 7:21 pmlove your blog, thanks. ‘specially the “who me” part
’nuff said