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G_d's Pee at State's End!
A drawing of two flowers arranged in a taijitu pattern.
Studio album by
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Released2 April 2021 (2021-04-02)
StudioHotel2Tango, Montreal
GenrePost-rock
Length52:38
LabelConstellation
ProducerJace Lasek[1][2]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor chronology
Luciferian Towers
(2017) 		G_d's Pee at State's End!
(2021)

G_d's Pee at State's End! (stylised as G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!) is the seventh studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released on 2 April 2021 by Constellation Records.

Background

In August 2019, the band played two new songs "Glacier" and "Cliff" as a part of their live sets for the first time.[3] According to a statement by the band, the material for the album was recorded in October 2020.

On 2 March 2021, the band released a video with a minute long preview[1] of the first track on the album: "A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job's Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (Rockets for Mary)".[4] The following day, 3 March 2021, Constellation Records announced the scheduled release of G_d's Pee at State's End! for 2 April 2021.[2][5][6] As with the band's previous album, "Luciferian Towers", a statement including a list of demands was released with the announcement.[1][6][7]

  • empty the prisons
  • take power from the police and give it to the neighbourhoods that they terrorise.
  • end the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.
  • tax the rich until they’re impoverished.

Prior to the release of the album, Constellation Records sent over 100 10-inch vinyl records to independent record stores as review copies,[1] instructing them "to share clips of [the preview] spinning in their stores or homes or wherever they find themselves with a turntable, in isolation or otherwise."[5][7]

On 27 March 2021, the Saturday before the official release date, the band released an official livestream of the album in its entirety. The music was accompanied by a 16mm projection show from Karl Lemieux and Philippe Leonard, and shot in an empty Cinema Imperial in Montreal. The 16mm projections opened, as is characteristic of the band's live shows, with the word "HOPE" scratched white onto black on celluloid. The show also used footage of pylons, riots and oil fires along side the music.[8] Such projection shows have long been a component of the band's live performances, but had not been released in an official capacity prior to the livestream.[9][10]


Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic83/100[11]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[12]
NME8/10[13]
Clash Magazine8/10[14]
Exclaim!7/10[15]
Pitchfork8.1/10[16]
Spectrum Culture[17]
Paste[18]
musicOMH[19]
The Guardian[8]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 83 based on 10 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[11]

The album received widespread positive reviews from critics. Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Paul Simpson gave it a positive assessment and claimed that the track "Government Came" (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) / Cliffs Gaze / cliffs' gaze at empty waters' rise / Ashes to Sea or Nearer to Thee was, "easily the most ecstatically triumphant music GY!BE have ever made".[12]

Criticizing on the album entirely, Patrick Clarke of NME said that ‘STATE’S END’ is a tumultuous record for tumultuous times, but there is a piece of galvanising beauty for every moment of crushing dread.[13] Grayson Haver Currin of Pitchfork portrayed the album as being honest about 'the nonlinear shape of progress, or how winning the war to build a better world inherently entails a lot of devastating loss', even the album in entirety sounded 'more than glibly hopeful'.[16] The album also was highly praised by Ben Salmon of Spectrum Culture, claiming that the band managed to blend their current level of sophistication with some of their earliest stylistic flourishes, thus the band shows how far they’ve come by returning to where they started.[17] Writing for The Guardian, Kitty Empire commented that this album is a 'particularly rocking instalment of their familiar franchise; still head and shoulders above most other music that sails under the flag of post-rock'.[8]

Track listing

The album is set to consist of one 12-inch LP and one 10-inch record.[1] It consists of four pieces, two long and two short, a structure used on the band's earlier albums, 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! and Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress.[20]

No.TitleLength
1."A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job's Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (Rockets for Mary)"20:22
2."Fire at Static Valley"5:58
3.""Government Came" (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) / Cliffs Gaze / cliffs' gaze at empty waters' rise / Ashes to Sea or Nearer to Thee"19:48
4."Our Side Has to Win (for D.H.)"6:30
Total length:52:38

Some releases of the album on streaming services (Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music and Amazon Music) tracks 1 and 3 of the physical release are split up into smaller tracks. Some other services (Bandcamp) retain the track listing of the physical releases.

No.TitleLength
1."A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) [4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz]"4:35
2."Job's Lament"8:02
3."First of the Last Glaciers"5:59
4."where we break how we shine (ROCKETS FOR MARY)"1:44
5."Fire at Static Valley"5:58
6.""GOVERNMENT CAME" (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz)"11:36
7."Cliffs Gaze / cliffs' gaze at empty waters' rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE"8:12
8."OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.)"6:30
Total length:52:38

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Breihan, Tom (3 March 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announce New Double Album G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!". Stereogum.
  2. ^ a b "Godspeed You! Black Emperor anuncia los detalles de nuevo álbum: "G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!"". Humo Negro (in Spanish). 3 March 2021.
  3. ^ Hazelwood, Holly (25 August 2019). "Concert Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Marisa Anderson". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  4. ^ Kennelty, Greg (3 March 2021). "GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Announces New Album G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!". Metal Injection.
  5. ^ a b Hughes, Josiah (3 March 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announce New Album 'G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!'". Exclaim!. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  6. ^ a b Monroe, Jazz (3 March 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announce New Album G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!". Pitchfork.
  7. ^ a b Young, Alex (3 March 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announce New Album G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!". Consequence of Sound.
  8. ^ a b c Empire, Kitty (3 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d's Pee at State's End! review – requiems for a saner world | Songs, Reviews, Credits". Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  9. ^ Hughes, Josiah (11 March 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Will Debut Their New Album with a Special Film Broadcast". Exclaim!. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  10. ^ Deville, Chris (11 March 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Will Debut Their New Album with a Special Film Broadcast". Stereogum. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  11. ^ a b "G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! by Godspeed You! Black Emperor Reviews and Tracks". Red Ventures. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  12. ^ a b Simpson, Paul (2 April 2021). "G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Songs, Reviews, Credits". All Media Network. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  13. ^ a b Clarke, Patrick (2 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor – 'G_d's Pee AT STATE's END' review: music for tumultuous times | Songs, Reviews, Credits". NME. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  14. ^ Weaver, David (2 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee at State's End! | Songs, Reviews, Credits". Clash Magazine. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  15. ^ Bobkin, Matt (2 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Revisit Past Glories on 'G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!' | Songs, Reviews, Credits". Exclaim!. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  16. ^ a b Currin, Grayson Haver (2 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | Songs, Reviews, Credits". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  17. ^ a b Salmon, Ben (2 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | Songs, Reviews, Credits". Spectrum Culture. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  18. ^ Cole, Jake (2 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor Looks Beyond the Apocalypse on G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END | Songs, Reviews, Credits". Paste Media Group. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  19. ^ Johnson, Steven (2 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | Songs, Reviews, Credits". musicOMH. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  20. ^ Johnson, Steven (1 April 2021). "Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!". musicOMH. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
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