Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2000 Ratings: #3 / 144
User Score
2000 Ratings: #1
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
AllMusic

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.

100
Tiny Mix Tapes

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.

100
Sputnikmusic
Structurally, musically and conceptually one of the most ambitious and incredible albums ever recorded.
100
The Needle Drop

A grand, devastating, beautiful, and at some points also inspiring, just wonderful album.

100
Alternative Press
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.
90
Pitchfork

The Canadian nontet's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is a massive, achingly beautiful work, alternately elegiac and ferocious.

80
Spin
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
The Guardian
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
Rolling Stone
The sound of ambition that's a few miles ahead of resources.
BradTasteMusic
100

okay I get it now. This thing is so... well textured.

Edit 98 -> 92 -> 100

This is not helping the argument that Fantano and I are not the same person

zachthesnack
98

Never has an old dude talking about Coney Island seemed so interesting to me

UltimateLifeFrm
100

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?

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Bloberta_House
28

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

BilbosWagons
100

beautiful

100

sleep is a top 10 song ever

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Track List

Disc 1
1Storm
22:32
  1. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Like Antennas to Heaven...
  2. Gathering Storm / Il pleut à mourir (+Clatters Like Worry)
  3. "Welcome to Arco AM/PM..." (L.A.X.; 5/14/00)
  4. Cancer Towers on Holy Road Hi-Way
98
2Static
22:35
  1. Terrible Canyons of Static
  2. Atomic Clock
  3. Chart #3
  4. World Police and Friendly Fire
96
Disc 2
1Sleep
23:17
  1. Murray Ostril: "...They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach..."
  2. Monheim
  3. Broken Windows, Locks of Love Pt. III / 3rd Part
98
2Like Antennas To Heaven...
18:57
  1. Moya Sings "Baby-O"...
  2. Edgyswingsetacid
  3. (Glockenspiel Duet Recorded on a Campsite in Rhinebeck, N.Y.)
  4. "Attention... Mon ami... Fa-Lala-Lala-La-La..." (55-St. Laurent)
  5. She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field
  6. Deathkamp Drone
  7. (Antennas to Heaven...)
96
Total Length: 1 hour, 27 minutes

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