’ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND!Godspeed You! Black Emperor · 2012

pitchfork

9.3

“Two weeks ago came the surprise announcement of a new album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, their first in 10 years. If they felt like a band of the moment around the turn of the millennium, now, in a time of rapid cultural turnover and bite-sized music consumption, Godspeed feel out of step in a very necessary way.”

rollingstone

8.0

“The latest from this Montreal band arrives per usual like a cryptic, doom-saying tract from an off-the-grid art cult – more or less what it is. Also per usual, it uses low-fi sound bites, neoclassical strings and neometal guitars in long, lyricless pieces that drone and crest spectacularly. During an eight-year hiatus, its approach shaped indie vernacular, from top students Explosions in the Sky t”