Pre-orders for G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! are available through independent vendors now.
Canadian post-rock titans Godspeed You! Black Emperor have returned with the announcement of a new album entitled G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
The long-awaited follow-up to 2017’s Luciferian Towers was produced by fellow Montreal-based musician Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and as noted by the reclusive band, will not be preceded by any singles in advance of its full release via Constellation Records on April 2nd.
Alongside a brief, whirring and typically cryptic one-minute-long trailer the band issued the following statement:
“we wrote it on the road mostly. when that was still a place.
and then recorded it in masks later, distanced at the beginning of the second wave.
it was autumn, and the falling sun was impossibly fat and orange.
we tried to summon a brighter reckoning there,
bent beneath varied states of discomfort, worry and wonderment.
we fired up the shortwave radios again, for the first time in a long time.
and found that many things had changed.
the apocalypse pastors were still there, but yelling END TIMES NOW where they once yelled “end times soon”.
and the transmission-detritus of automated militaries takes up more bandwidth now,
so that a lot of frequencies are just pulses of rising white static,
digital codexes announcing the status of various watching and killing machines.
and the ham-radio dads talk to each other all night long.
about their dying wives and what they ate for lunch and what they’ll do with their guns when antifa comes.
this record is about all of us waiting for the end.
all current forms of governance are failed.
this record is about all of us waiting for the beginning,
and is informed by the following demands=
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.
much love to all the other lost and lovely ones,
these are death-times and our side has to win.
we’ll see you on the road once the numbers fall.“
G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! releases on April 2nd via Constellation Records. Pre-order the album on CD and vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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