Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven – Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2000) Guys, this album is so good. This is a freewriting exercise because I haven't posted anything to this blog in well over a year (despite what my last post promised), but that's okay because I don't need to collect my thoughts for this album. Just like you don't need me to tell you that this album is good: every indiehead on the planet who also isn't a bitter contrarian will tell you that this album is a masterpiece. 4 tracks, 80+ minutes, post-rock bliss, crescendo-core, anarchism. It's not for everyone, but if you have the patience and the time, it's a must-hear. I consider this album to be a "tribute" to humanity, an ode to all the things we've done, a parade of all the mistakes we've made. I remember it was listening to/thinking about the passage in "...Like Antennas to Heaven," in which we hear a field recording of children playing when I real...