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Godspeed You! Black Emperor announce new album

written by: on October 2, 2012

Canadian epic post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced they will be releasing a new album this month. The band reunited in 2010, and have put some of their live show staples on tape for this release. It’s titled, and is Godspeed’s first release in a decade. Says Constellation Records:

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.

Indeed, this is picking up right where they left off. These 20-minute opuses (opi?), are dense and loud and emotional as anything released by this band previously. ALLELUJAH! will be available October 15 in Europe and October 16 everywhere else. For the record-collecting nerds among us, it will be on 180 gram vinyl, and ” includes a 7 inch in printed dust sleeve (same audio appears in a different sequence on the CD) and a 12″x48″ pull-out poster (printed full colour on both sides) featuring a collage of film stills specially-photographed and captured from the GYBE live 16mm projections.”

Tracklist and tour dates below.

ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND! tracklist
1. MLADIC
2. THEIR HELICOPTERS’ SING
3. WE DRIFT LIKE WORRIED FIRE
4. STRUNG LIKE LIGHTS AT THEE PRINTEMPS ERABLE

2012 Tour Dates
01.10.12 Boston, US Orpheum Theatre
02.10.12 Philadelphia, US Union Transfer
03.10.12 Baltimore, US Rams Head Live
04.10.12 Carrboro, US Cats Cradle
05.10.12 Atlanta, US Buckhead Theatre
06.10.12 Birmingham,AL, US Bottletree
07.10.12 New Orleans, US Tipitinas
09.10.12 Austin, US The Mohawk
10.10.12 Austin, US The Mohawk
11.10.12 Dallas, US Granada Theatre
12.10.12 Nashville, US Cannery Ballroom
13.10.12 Louisville, US Headliners Music Hall
14.10.12 Detroit, US Majestic Theatre
15.10.12 Buffalo, NY, US Town Ballroom
28.10.12 Porto, PT Amplifest
30.10.12 Madrid, ES Teatro Kapital
31.10.12 Barcelona, ES Sala Apolo
01.11.12 Bordeaux, FR Le Rocher de Palmer
02.11.12 Nantes, FR Lieu Unique – Soy Festival
03.11.12 Lille, FR La Condition Publique
04.11.12 London, UK Kentish Town Forum
05.11.12 London, UK Kentish Town Forum
07.11.12 Brussels, BE Cirque Royal
08.11.12 Berlin, DE SO36
09.11.12 Berlin, DE SO36
10.11.12 Dresden, DE Reithalle
11.11.12 Prague, CZ Lucerna Music
12.11.12 Vienna, AT Arena
14.11.12 Ljubljana, SL Kino Siska
w/ Dirty Three
15.11.12 Zurich, CH Rote Fabrik
16.11.12 Bern, CH Dachstock Reitschule
13.02.13 Brisbane, AU The Tivoli Theatre
14.02.13 Sydney, AU The Enmore
15.02.13 Melbourne, AU Forum Melbourne
16.02.13 Alton, AU ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror