Luciferian Towers
by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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Luciferian Towers is ranked 9th best out of 10 albums by Godspeed You! Black Emperor on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven which is ranked number 93 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,178.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 4 days ago | cicadelic | 13,352 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/07/2026 20:00 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,103 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/24/2026 08:26 | TonySayers61 | 25,034 | 64/100 |
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LedZep 01/24/2018 13:49 | #206430 | TOP COMMENT
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Not as coherent, scary and brilliant as LYSFLATH and especially F#A#, but there are moments, melodies here that are as good as anything Godspeed have done. A fantastic album, one of the best of the year. I really miss the spoken word sections though!
RoundTheBend 01/20/2018 22:54 | #206100
The two 3 part works are pretty stellar.
SleepDealer 10/31/2017 21:54 | #200373 | TOP COMMENT
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Disappointing, but it's still Godspeed.
Graeme2 10/22/2017 08:12 | #199913 | TOP COMMENT
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Blah blah, it's not as good as the best stuff they've done, blah blah it's not this or that. How about what it is rather than what it's not? There's moments on this as good as anything released this year. When they arrive they still make me feel. Not the best album they've made. Not the best album of the year. More interesting, emotional and just better than nearly the vast majority of releases this year.
I loved it. But I'm gonna have to return to their older work to really understand it.
SaulCortes1992 09/15/2017 02:55 | #198015
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I don't know if I should review this off of a leak, but I don't think it's gonna make much of a difference once I hear the official release.
I notice the band with this album and ASAOD are breaking away from the "slow buildup" formula they're known for. New formula worked better this time mostly due to the lack of long boring drones (which they have done well a couple of times, but on ASAOD it was more of a pain in the ass). I appreciate that they're still changing and trying out new things 20 years after their debut. I'm not so sure I fully dig this new style yet though. The buildups gave the music and the melodies a bit of tension and made them more powerful. There are nice sounds and melodies on this album, but yeah, they lack a bit of emotion and tension and becomes less powerful. They seem to have completely abandoned the classic voice samples after LYSFLATH, but again I guess it's better for a band to progress than redo the same formula 'till it's old and tired. Overall quite an improvement over ASAOD (shows that they've not completely lost it, thankfully). Not one of their best, but good nonetheless.
Bosses Hang and Anthem For No State are split into three parts according to iTunes so it should probably be adjusted.
I hope this is gonna be better than ASAOD (which I found to be rather mediocre). Love GYBE so I've got my hopes up!
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