GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR! - ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND!

These are the first new recordings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor since 2002. Featuring two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music and two six-and-a-half minute drones, ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND! provides soaring, shining proof of the band’s powerful return to form.


Having emerged from hiatus at the end of 2010, GYBE picked up right where they left off, immediately re-capturing the sound and material that had fallen dormant in 2003 and driving it forward with every show of their extensive touring over the last 18 months. The new album presents the fruits of that labour: evolved and definitive versions of two huge compositions previously known to fans as Albanian and Gamelan, now properly titled as MLADIC and WE DRIFT LIKE WORRIED FIRE respectively. Accompanied by the new drones (stitched into the album sequence on CD; cut separately on their own 7″ for the LP version), GYBE have offered up a fifth album that we feel is as absolutely vital, virulent, honest and heavy as anything in their discography.


Tracklisting

1. Mladic 
2. Their Helicopters Sing 
3. We Drift Like Worried Fire
4. Strung Like Lights At Thee Printemps Erable