They can be wanking
each other off for a quarter of an hour (which is exactly what they do in the
middle of this new album), but as long as they can produce something as
monstrously magical as “Piss Crowns Are Trebled” – all is forgiven.
This could well be
the quintessential Godspeed You! Black Emperor song, and I’ve never been a huge
fan of the band in the first place. Like Henryk Gorecki for the indie age, this
is sorrowful intensity at its shimmering best.
I can’t comment on
the title, but this was like hearing Swans’ monumental “Apostate” in 2012.
