Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
| Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven | ||
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| LP by Godspeed You Black Emperor! | ||
| Released | October 27, 2000 | |
| Genre | Post rock | |
| Length | 87 min 21 s | |
| Record label | Constellation | |
| Recorded | Chemical Sounds in Toronto, Canada. | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Pitchfork Media | 9 out of 10 | October 26, 2000 |
| Godspeed You Black Emperor Chronology | ||
| Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (EP) (1999) |
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000) |
Yanqui U.X.O. (2002) |
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is an album released by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a Montreal post rock band, on Constellation Records in 2000. It is generally regarded as one of their best albums.
The album was recorded at Chemical Sounds in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lift Your Skinny Fists... is peculiar in being structurally and conceptually closer to a symphony than a conventional pop/rock album. The four tracks are composed of internal movements, with different sub-titles, that fade into each other. The whole album is instrumental, except for sampled voice inserts, and starts with an almost orchestral crescendo somehow reminiscent of Ravel's Bolero.
In 2001 Q magazine named it as one of the 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time.
Tracks
Disc One
1. "Storm" — 22:32
- "Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven..." (0:00 - 5:30)
- "Gathering Storm/Il Pleut à Mourir [+Clatters Like Worry]" (5:30 - 11:33)
- "'Welcome to Barco AM/PM...' [L.A.X., 5/14/00]"/"Cancertowers on Holy Road Hi-Way" (11:33 - 21:59)
2. "Static" — 22:35
- "Terrible Canyons of Static" (0:00 - 3:30)
- "Atomic Clock"/"Chart #3" (3:30 - 6:09)
- "World Police and Friendly Fire" (6:09 - 15:41)
- "[...+the Buildings They Are Sleeping Now]" (15:41 - 21:07)
Disc Two
1. "Sleep" — 23:17
- "Murray Ostril: '...they don't sleep anymore on the Beach...'"/"Monheim" (0:00 - 13:15)
- "Broken Windows, Locks of Love Pt. III." (13:15 - 21:12)
2. "Antennas to Heaven" — 18:57
- "Moya Sings "Baby-O"..."/"Edgyswingsetacid"/"[Glockenspiel Duet Recorded on a Campsite in Rhinebeck, N.Y.]" (0:00 - 4:00)
- ""Attention...Mon Ami....Fa-Lala-Lala-La-La..." [55-St. Laurent]"/"She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field" (4:00 - 14:30)
- "Deathkamp Drone"/"[Antennas to Heaven...]" (14:30 - 18:57)