There is no such predictable pattern repeated among the works on Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven -- it's loaded with dynamics, unexpected sections, strong emotions and beauty.
Godspeed You Black Emperor's music is far closer to art and texture than it is to modern rock, pop, or any other contemporary genre. It's like a far-subtler Pink Floyd, without the comfort of a human voice.
A grand, devastating, beautiful, and at some points also inspiring, just wonderful album.
The Canadian nontet's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is a massive, achingly beautiful work, alternately elegiac and ferocious.
okay I get it now. This thing is so... well textured.
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This is not helping the argument that Fantano and I are not the same person
1K+ FOLLOWERS!?!?!?
I'm... honestly struggling to comprehend that this has actually happened. When I first hit this milestone on the evening of March 7th, I could not contain my emotions and instantly burst into tears; it just felt so overwhelming.
I've only been on the site for nearly 6 months now and I cannot believe the amount of support I've received in this short space of time. Honestly, where has time gone?
From being someone who loved just to rate & review music to having support ... read more
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (often shortened to Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, Lift Your Skinny Fists, or LYSF), or Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas to Heaven on the rear of physical releases, is the second studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released as a double album on October 9, 2000, on vinyl by Constellation and November 8, 2000, on CD by Kranky. It has been listed on multiple decade-end lists as one of the greatest ... read more
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