Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
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.
12y
100
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.
11y
100
Structurally, musically and conceptually one of the most ambitious and incredible albums ever recorded.
100
A grand, devastating, beautiful, and at some points also inspiring, just wonderful album.
10mo
100
A massive instrumental effort, as skilled and musical as it is on-the-fly improvised and messy. Seamlessly blending sonic experiments with live group interactions, godspeed saunter through these four extended pieces with ease.
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7mo
90
The Canadian nontet's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is a massive, achingly beautiful work, alternately elegiac and ferocious.
12y
80
Arguably the best band to hail from the unfortunately named "post-rock" genre, Montreal's Godspeed You Black Emperor have transcended the limitations of that suspect sobriquet.
60
But what's left for a poor anarcho-syndicalist refusenik clan to do at the dawn of a new millennium, other than wipe their eyes and trudge on to the next screaming crescendo? What indeed. With this occasionally brilliant but fatally over-extended work, Godspeed You Black Emperor! have proved that it is, after all, only music.
60
The sound of ambition that's a few miles ahead of resources.
7mo
okay I get it now. This thing is so... well textured.
Edit 98 -> 92 -> 100
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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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Track List
Disc 1
| 1 | Storm 22:32
| 98 |
| 2 | Static 22:35
| 96 |
Disc 2
| 1 | Sleep 23:17
| 98 |
| 2 | Like Antennas To Heaven... 18:57
| 96 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 27 minutes
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