Earlier this year, I caught Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Knockdown Center in Queens, NY. During that show, they played a setlist of what seemed like entirely new material. Today, the legendary act has announced a new album and it likely consists of the songs they played that night. The album is titled "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD," which, if you can't tell, is a reference to the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza as of that date. Along with announcing the album, the group shared the seismic album closer "GREY RUBBLE - GREEN SHOOTS" which is about as epic of a tune as you likely can imagine and is filled with the typical string arrangements, punishing swells of guitar, and crashing drums that have helped define the band's sound for decades. On the group's Bandcamp page, they shared the following message:
THE PLAIN TRUTH==
we drifted through it, arguing.
every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom.
we sat down together and wrote it in one room,
and then sat down in a different room, recording.
NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody?
and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile.
the sun setting above beds of ash
while we sat together, arguing.
the old world order barely pretended to care.
this new century will be crueler still.
war is coming.
don’t give up.
pick a side.
hang on.
love.
GY!BE
"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" is out October 4.
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