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Aug 02, 2017 Godspeed You! Black Emperor By Christopher Roberts

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced a new album, “Luciferian Towers”, and some tour dates. “Luciferian Towers” is due out September 22 via Constellation. The album will be released on 180g vinyl and CD, both with 100% recycled paperboard gatefold jackets. It was recorded at Montreal’s Hotel2Tango studio during the winter of 2016/2017. Greg Norman engineered and co-produced the album, as he did the band’s last album, 2015’s Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress. No music from the album has been shared yet, but below is a lengthy statement from the band, as well as the album’s tracklist and artwork and the band’s tour dates.

Here’s the band’s statement on the album:

“this, this long-playing record, a thing we made in the midst of communal mess, raising dogs and children. eyes up and filled with dreadful joy - we aimed for wrong notes that explode, a quiet muttering amplified heavenward. we recorded it all in a burning motorboat.

(context as follows:)

1. UNDOING A LUCIFERIAN TOWERS - look at that fucking skyline! big lazy money writ in dull marble obelisks! imagine all those buildings much later on, hollowed out and stripped bare of wires and glass, listen- the wind is whistling through all 3,000 of its burning window-holes!

2. BOSSES HANG - labor, alienated from the wealth it creates, so that holy cow, most of us live precariously! kicking at it, but barely hanging on! also - the proud illuminations of our shortened lives! also - more of us than them! also - what we need now is shovels, wells, and barricades!

3. FAM / FAMINE - how they kill us = absentee landlord, burning high-rise. the loud panics of child-policemen and their exploding trigger-hands. with the dull edge of an arbitrary meritocracy. neglect, cancer maps, drone strike, famine. the forest is burning and soon they’ll hunt us like wolves.

4. ANTHEM FOR NO STATE - kanada, emptied of its minerals and dirty oil. emptied of its trees and water. a crippled thing, drowning in a puddle, covered in ants. the ocean doesn’t give a shit because it knows it’s dying too.

finally and in conclusion;
the “luciferian towers” L.P. was informed by the following grand demands:
+ an end to foreign invasions
+ an end to borders
+ the total dismantling of the prison-industrial complex
+ healthcare, housing, food and water acknowledged as an inalienable human right
+ the expert fuckers who broke this world never get to speak again

much love to all the other lost and wondering ones,
xoxoxox god’s pee / montréal / 4 juillet, 2017”

“Luciferian Towers” Tracklist:

01 Undoing a Luciferian Towers
02 Bosses Hang
03 Fam/Famine
04 Anthem for No State

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Tour Dates:

09-03 Montréal, Quebec - Mile Ex End Musique Montréal Festival
09-22 Guadalajara, Mexico - C3 Stage
09-23 Ciudad de México, Mexico - Festival Aural
10-13-14 Rome, Italy - Romaeuropa Festival
10-15 Fribourg, Switzerland - Frison
10-16 Toulouse, France - Le Bikini
10-17 Bordeaux, France - Krakatoa
10-18 Rennes, France - Théâtre National de Bretagne
10-19 Rouen, France - Le 106
10-20 Lyon, France - Le Tobogan
10-21 Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
10-22 Lille, France - La Condition publique
10-23 Brighton, England - Brighton Dome
10-27 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
10-28 Manchester, England - Victoria Warehouse
10-30 Bristol, England - Motion
10-31 London, England - Troxy
11-01 Brussels, Belgium - Vorst Nationaal
11-02 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
11-03 Berlin, Germany - Festsaal Kreuzberg
11-05 Hanover, Germany - Indiego
11-07 Paris, France - Elysée Montmartre

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