'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Year: 2012
Release date: 2012-10-15
Overall rank: 1,039th   
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 410 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2012 (14th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (149th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,039th)

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor bestography

'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! is ranked 4th 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 91 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,999.

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   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! rankings

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Overall rank: 1,039th | 2010s rank: 149th | 2012 rank: 14th

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Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 410 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.5/100, a mean average of 78.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.

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80/100
From 10/16/2022 05:46 | #290517
Side two is one of the best things to come out this year.
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90/100
From 01/12/2020 13:46 | #246770
Something else indeed. Wonderful.
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100/100
From 11/08/2017 04:32 | #200966
Just as good as LYSF and F#A#.., this one is not to be dismissed. Mladic might be my favorite Godspeed track
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75/100
From 09/29/2017 04:17 | #198872
Mladic was amazing, the rest was OK
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90/100
From 09/13/2015 03:50 | #149626
I don't expect these guys to ever surpass what they did on LYSFLATH, that would just be an unreasonable expectation. But I do think this is their second best.
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90/100
From 01/06/2014 13:01 | #100001
That's what you call talent. They wouldn't be able to make a bad record even if they tried.
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90/100
From 11/24/2013 17:38 | #94352
Love this. Different I think from their other stuff. Great comeback. Wish I could see them live! Love the way mladic builds from the spacemen3 jam then the bass kicks in and then that riff! Amazing production.
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From 07/10/2013 01:32 | #80819
This entire album is instrumental and it’s post-rock at its absolute best. It’s tough to explain this album, it has almost immeasurable depth and breadth, like listening to a beautifully crafted symphony. If you’re familiar with the band Explosions In The Sky, then you’re familiar with this type of music. It is absolutely beautiful, the kind of music that you turn on loudly, lay down and meld into, losing yourself in the music. It’s amazing and I highly recommend it. It’s probably their best album since “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven". There aren’t really highlights that I can list either, as this is an album that needs to be listened to all the way through, though I will say the first track, “Mladic", is absolutely amazing.
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From 02/28/2013 21:31 | #66478
Best release in 2012.
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From 01/31/2013 17:13 | #63475
Why isnt this atleast in the top 20? please anyone, tell me how this is worse than the jack white album..
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