GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR – ASUNDER SWEET AND OTHER DISTRESS Vinyl LP For Cheap

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (GYBE) returns with its first single LP-length release since the group s earliest days in 1997-99. Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress clocks in at a succinct 40:23 and is arguably the most focused and best-sounding recording of the band s career. Following Godspeed s return from a long hiatus at the end of 2010 to begin playing live shows again, and with the hugely acclaimed Allelujah! Don t Bend! Ascend! release in 2012 marking their first new release in a decade, the group slowly and steadily put the new album together through late 2013 and 2014. This mighty slab of superlative sonics is shot through with all the band s inimitable signposts and touchstones: huge unison riffage, savage noise drone, oscillating overtones, guitar vs. string counterpoint, inexorable crescendos and scorched-earth transitions. Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress finds Godspeed in top form; a sterling celebration of the band s awesome dialectic, where composition, emotion and note-choice is inextricable from an exacting focus on tone, timbre, resonance and the sheer materiality of sound.