Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (180 Gram Vinyl) (2 Lp's) [Vinyl]

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (180 Gram Vinyl) (2 Lp's) [Vinyl] Barcode: 666561001216 This two-disc Godspeed You Black Emperor tour de force is considered something of a milestone of the post-rock age. The first disc opens with slowly drifting ambient droning, which gradually begets mournful strings and a distant, pitch-shifted evangelical sermon before an increasingly ominous thudding rock beat, guitars, glockenspiel, distortion, and bass come spiraling in to break things up for an ever-tightening crescendo. The following piece, "Static," is marked by the early arrival of a hauntingly sad melody (yes, an actual melody), followed by slowly accelerating beats and the ghost of a dying bagpipe--one of Emperor's truly majestic moments--which later segues into shopping announcements and more treated distortion. The second disc starts off with a sample of an old man reminiscing about the long-lost glory days of Coney