The Canadian ensemble’s NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD will release through Constellation in October.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced the release of a new album.
NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD is aligned for release on October 4th and will mark the venerated Canadian instrumental ensemble’s eighth full-length studio album. Recorded with Jace Lasek at Montreal facility Hotel2Tango in the Winter of 2024, the successor to 2021’s G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! comprises six songs and is noted to be titled in acknowledgement of the death toll of Palestinians killed in Gaza as of February 13th. In support of the forthcoming album’s release the group will return to the road for previously announced tours of the United Kingdom, Europe and North America commencing in late September and concluding in May.
A blurb for NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD reads,
“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”
A typically sprawling seven-minute precursor, hear newly debuted single ‘GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS’ and view the full track list for NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD below.
NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD
1 ‘SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS’
2 ‘HOLE SUN IS VAPORS BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD’
3 ‘RAINDROPS CAST IN LEAD’
4 ‘BROKEN SPIRES AT DEAD KAPITAL’
5 ‘PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS’
6 ‘GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS’
NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD releases on October 4th via Constellation Records. Pre-order the album on vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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