2012.10.11 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

Color: Black

Released:1999, March 8

Label: Constellation

You knew it was entirely inevitable that I would start posting a bunch of GY!BE records after expressing just how much I had enjoyed their recent show in Atlanta and the impact that their new recording has already left on me. This 2 song EP contains the more brooding nature of Godspeed’s music (I know, I know… you’re thinking when is their music not brooding?). But if you listen closely to what they do and consider a recent interview, the band are definitely capable of more “uplifting” moments. Second track “Blaise Bailey Finnegan III” is the more compelling track as the spoken samples provide interesting narrative that gives way to the band really opening up and exploding in the final third of the song. The packaging for the release is gorgeous and makes excellent use of some foil stamping. Perhaps the inclusion of a passage from Jeremiah and the hebrew words for “waste and void” lend to the ominous bent of this particular release.