#21

i guess this is what i like about it

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#22

Heres my thoughts

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#23

hah fair enough!!

#24

i tried but just can’t get on with godspeed anymore, and it kinda bums me out because it’s no fault of their own. everyone else ruined it for them.

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#25

I know what you mean. They meant everything to me on that run of eps and albums from '97 - '02. They really were at the vanguard, to me the most important band in the world, but now I just can’t listen to them anymore.

#26

Reads a bit like a 5 star review - what kept it from full marks?

#27

It’s true, I don’t really have negative to say about this, I guess all that’s holding it back from being a 5 is that a 5 would suggest it’s up there with the very best, whereas in reality it’s probably just a very good “return to form”

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#28

So really you’re listening to it wrong too :grinning:

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#29

We’re all wrong in our own individual and unique ways.

I feel certain that Godspeed would be happy with this being the takeaway message.

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#30
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#31

Really liking this. Could be because I’ve been listening to post-rock more recently than any time in the last decade, but I think it’s clicking with me more than any of their other post-comeback LPs – certainly my favourite since Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!. Kind of in a class of their own when it comes to this stuff, even if they’ve not quite reached the heights of F♯A♯∞ or Lift Yr. Skinny Fists since. Would love to see them live again.

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#32

On a first listen, I’m in the ‘yeah, that’s pretty good’ camp - like, it’s not bad, but you put it up against something like Mladic, and you just want to listen to Mladic instead.

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#33

This is definitely the strongest album of their ‘second phase’.

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#34
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#35

Oh yes

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#36

Mine too. I heard it first at the weekend but was doing something else and was not really paying attention so was a bit meh. Listened to it properly last night and really liked it.

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#37

Bristol and Coventry(?) dates announced too, presumably some more that I don’t know about as well.

#38

Godspeed You! Black Emperor:

01-12 Diksmuide, Belgium - 4 AD
01-13 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
01-14 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
01-15 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
01-16 London, England - Electric Ballroom
01-17 London, England - Electric Ballroom
01-19 Bristol, England - SWX
01-20 Coventry, England - Empire
01-21 Glasgow, Scotland - The Barrowland
01-22 Manchester, England - University Academy I
01-24 Rennes, France - Le MeM
01-25 Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre
01-26 Clermont Ferrand, France - La Cooperative de Mai
01-27 Nancy, France - L’Autre Canal
01-28 Bern, Switzerland - Dachstock Reitschule
01-31 Karlsruhe, Germany - Substage
02-01 Cologne, Germany - Kantine
02-02 Berlin, Germany - Festsaal
02-04 St. Petersburg, Russia - Aurora
02-05 Moscow, Russia - Club 1930

#39

Sweet. Manchester for me - unless the sound is shit there?

#40

Smaller venues this time round, last time they were in Bristol they played at Motion (which is probably about twice as big as SWX).