“No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead”, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

It’s the title — The absence of? Not really — which grabs us even before hearing the first flights of strings and guitars from the now legendary Montreal post-rock collective. It recounts the genesis of this eighth album, composed and recorded last winter, when the number of Gazan victims was increasing every day (more than 40,000 dead today). The group will never stop finding new anger to channel into rock, and it does so here with a taste of revolt as strong as that of opening its musical spectrum by exploring new contrasts, new nuances between the violin and the guitars. electrical. The meeting between Sophie Trudeau’s violin and the guitars of her colleagues has the most powerful effect on Raindrop Cast in Leadthe summit of an admirably varied album, with tensions tempered by passages inviting us to contemplate the desolation around us (Broken Spiers at Dead Kapital). Another successful and catalytic album that the collective will present at MTelus on November 25 and 26.

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