Euphorigenic apocalyptic mood, orchestral insurgencies against the music business and all forms of capitalism: For more than two decades the horde music of Godspeed You! Black Emperor has been trafficked as the epitome of post-rock with an attitude. A formidable array of surging guitar and staggering bass meets shimmering strings and powerful drums. With hypnotic loops the epic instrumentals swell into Cinemascope elegies that play with endlessly delayed climaxes: music as self-maximisation, as grand refusal, and as a protest against the now.

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