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Thee Silver Mountain Reveries. Pretty Little Lightning Paw. 2004

We Woke Up One Morning, and Fell a Little Further Down - A Godspeed You! Black Emperor Retrospective - Pt. -1: All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling

If you saw this release coming, I straight up don’t believe you.

How could you have seen it? We had been told, over and over again, that the only way we were getting this album was by way of a leak. The band didn't want this on their record, and went out of their way to bury it. This would be fine if the leaks were plentiful, which they were not. Every one was either a fake or a dead end. Users of Reddit will remember the casketjack incident of 2013, a man who claimed to have a tape only to disappear into the ether. The message was clear, we weren't getting it.

Except, of course, we did. Officially, even.

Let me make one thing perfectly clear going into this. Everything that you have heard from the band over the years about this album is true. They have claimed that it isn’t a Godspeed record due to the major diversions it takes from the standard template. However, this is where I deviate. I wouldn’t go quite that far.

This album is still Godspeed, bits and flashes of the band we will come to know appear throughout the album, but it is in a half-formed state. Understandable, the band recorded this on no budget with the understanding that this may be their last chance to record anything, but it holds true regardless.

Still, don’t let this previous paragraph fool you, this is a fundamentally weird album. Weird even by the standards of this band which, if you’ve been paying attention, says quite a bit. It is full of little digressions and field recordings that don’t seem to go anywhere, there are folk ballads sung by Efrim, which might excite fans of the side project Silver Mt. Zion, but the lyrics are often rambling and confused, and the singing and lo-fi nature of the recording tend to garble much of the already garbled songs.

The result is that All Lights begins to feel a little bit less like a true Godspeed album and more like an archival release; something along the lines of the Pet Sounds sessions or the Esher demos; a half-formed release that listens like a blueprint of something more interesting to come. You can hear the beginnings of what would become The Sad Mafioso on tracks like the brief Shot Thru Tubes, their experiments in noise with the intro to Three Three Three and the track Beep, and even some tracks that would be completely irrepresentative of what the band would do, like the shoegazy Diminishing Shine. It’s the kitchen sink approach to album creation that can only come from a bunch of weirdos who never expected to get famous.

Truthfully, there is little I can say that would change your opinion of this album. If you don’t know about this, here you go, now you know what to expect. If you do know about this, you probably already downloaded it or bought it. I know I did as soon as I found out. It’s the final frontier of Post Rock, the weird beginnings of one of the biggest, most talented, and longest lasting bands in the genre; for that reason alone, if you’re a fan, it’s worth the listen.

Imagine a butch who dates robotgirls and she's got the belt and carabiner "ready for business" look down, but all the stuff hanging from it is reverse-engineering tools.

A full set of screwdriver bits (including security torx and those weird tri-wing Nintendo ones), assorted spuders, those little rubber suction-cups you use to remove LCDs, a line flashlight, macro lenses, IPA wipes, chip pullers, portable hot air rework gun and a pinecil soldering iron, desoldering braid, a wide variety of ESD-safe tweezers, and one of those anti-stack wristbands but on a retractable lead like it's for walking a dog.

She left her backpack at home but it's got a stereo inspection station, a full set of lockpicks (including those tubular lock impresioning ones), and an aging ThinkPad with a bunch of USB adapters: every memory card format you can imagine, all the major hard drive interfaces, and even 3.5"/5.25" floppy disks thanks to a 3D printed enclosure with a greaseweazle flux imager (the Applesauce stays at home connected to her Mac Mini). A USB optical drive that can read and burn all the cd formats, and a as small plastic case of some blank CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, and Blu-rays. A bunch of USB flash drives, some blank, some preflashed with assorted tools and marked with little keychain labels: some linuxes, a warezed all-in-one windows installer, live distros for tails and kali and partionmagic and DBAN.

She's ready for anything.

Godspeed you! Black emperor

He has left us alone, but shafts of light sometimes grace the corner of our rooms

star trek theme song

Tracklist:

Broken Chords Can Sing A Little • Sit In The Middle Of Three Galloping Dogs • Stumble Then Rise On Some Awkward Morning • Movie (Never Made) • 13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round The Side Of Your Bed • Long March Rocket Or Doomed Airliner • Blown-out Joy From Heaven's Mercied Hole • For Wanda

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ Youtube

Post Rock be like

(Political spoken word sample that has some meaning on the song)

[The most apocalyptic instrumental that you will ever hear for about 20 or so minutes]

It will not be a tender fire Upon your postcard mountains No golden children Will write hymns about The slow defeat of your reckless destiny

a love letter to b&w artists and the series as a whole, and a hate letter to all police and military orginizations

close-ups under the cut, and sketches available for free on my ko-fi [link]

[Image description: A digital painting of Neil and Brian from the film Mysterious Skin. It depicts the ending scene on the couch, but from their shoulders up. Brian leans his head on Neil's shoulder, turning inwards to him. He's looking off into the distance, mouth slightly open, and eyes seeming empty. Neil has a similarly distant look in his eyes, though he's looking down past Brian. Their skin is coloured with warm tones while their clothes are coloured with colder ones, specifically blue and dark purple. The background is a messy blue wash, with a lighter outline around the boys which makes it seem like they're glowing. In the same colour, floating above their heads, is the sentence "rise like two angels in the night".]

Inktober - Day 16 (Angel)

Film - Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)

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The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw" EP by Thee Silver Mountain Reveries is Nonbinary!

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piphany done afteeeer 3 1/2 hours. this was incredible and so much fun...god damn!!