Luciferian Towers

In uscita il 22 settembre 2017 via Constellation, Luciferian Towers è il nuovo disco della post-rock band canadese Godspeed You! Black Emperor. L’album segue, a distanza di due anni, l’ottimo Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress (recensito su queste pagine da Stefano Pifferi) ed è composto da quattro  tracce di cui 2 suite.

A supporto della nuova pubblicazione, che uscirà nei formati vinile e CD, è stato annunciato anche un tour europeo che partirà il 3 settembre 2017 e che, al momento, non prevede date in Italia. La band, però, è attesa nel nostro paese, il 13 e 14 ottobre 2017 all’Auditorium Conciliazione di Roma, per uno speciale spettacolo a cavallo tra musica e danza dal titolo Monumental.Ad anticiparla, l’opener Undoing A Luciferian Towers. Di seguito la descrizione dei brani fornita dalla band sulla pagina ufficiale Bandcamp.

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