Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress (studio album) by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-03-31
Overall rank: 3,685th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress is ranked 8th 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 89 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 14,885.

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From 11/02/2020 16:09
Piss Crowns Are Trebled is the best song title I've seen and am likely to see. It's a kickass song too.
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Etheral.
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From 12/27/2016 11:23
I agree that it's not their best album, but i'm rather tired of all the crying over the drones in the middle. I mean, some of their great tracks from their earliest works, (Static, Antennas to Heaven, Providence...) have very long drones as well.
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From 12/18/2016 01:19
Eh
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From 12/29/2015 05:42
The middle two tracks!
Sounds like listening to iDoser!
The other two tracks are good though, it's just bad production
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From 11/05/2015 13:30
Pretty cool starting track to the record and an excellent ending track. The middle 2 tracks though are just constant incessant noise that doesn't end soon enough
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From 10/02/2015 12:06
Contender for BEST RECORD of 2015.
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From 09/12/2015 03:15
Definitely their hardest most aggressive album, which can be nice depending on my mood, but the middle drags on a little longer than I would have hoped. It also feels like their least inventive.
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From 08/01/2015 10:30
If we just pay attention to the musical side, it's magnificient and grandiloquient, GY!BE never were so heavy and melodic, I saw them live two weeks ago and it was the best concert of my life. If I have to judge his aesthetics, I have to admit it's not THAT precious, because it lacks the conceptual strenght of the old GY!BE, so the drones part in the middle is just a bridge that makes the last melodic explosion stronger, but it's quite boring and has no ideological power as it was in the previous works
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From 07/20/2015 08:50
I don't know, I feel rather displeased by this new GYBE album. The four pieces of this short outfit have been around for a while in their live material, and I'm pretty sure this feels a lot more powerful on stage than in studio, but it's like if they weren't trying to experiment on this one. You know, the sound is rawer, angrier and all of that (probably their more aggressive one), but it's like if they were trying to dig always in the same hole. 'Allelujah introduced some new melodies and sensibilities in their music, but not this one. They could add up so much more (like use of electronics, acoustic guitars, experimental sounds, more contrapunctual melodies, like in the very end of the last song of this LP, instead of just every instrument doing the same thing to make music sound louder, nearly orchestral stuff, etc.) but instead they end up doing always quiet parts, crescendos, accumulation of tension, loud explosion and release of tension, diminuendos and quiet parts again, like in a loop. In the end, it's a good album, a decent one, worth-hearing, but it feels like something you've already heard, nothing innovative nor so impressive.
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