Good luck! Black Emperor – “Untitled, 340 dead as of February 13, 2024”

2024-10-05 16:41:25

from oliver
October 5, 2024
On the album “Heavy Spin”

“340 dead, no ownership as of February 13, 2024” Canada’s collective political commitment is written on the flag that flies in the world’s state of war. clear below Good luck! black emperor However, they have their own patented sound.

eighth album this The post-rock band on the planet largely eschews samples as well as flat ambient/drone passages (if you exclude the vinyl version’s bonus tracks). In other words, these things have always been part of the cultural identity to some degree. Extremely fast Or, at the latest, have become inseparable from the way the organization operates since its rebirth.
That “340 dead, no ownership as of February 13, 2024” Take advantage of the space freed up in a proven formula, achieve relative rigor and accessibility in your songwriting, and otherwise put all remaining trademarks on a pedestal (e.g., on a creepy, booming crescendo Escalating dramatic guitars and apocalyptic violins in a fortissimo) of cinematic heights and epochal depth) and then through a more traditional structure without nested suites, probably the band’s best album since Return ‘Hallelujah! Don’t bend! rise!.

A new pinnacle of Second Life, which can be attributed to the fact that in the course of uplifting melodies (and scenes that are already burning live), one or another truly brilliant, iconic, overwhelmingly Goosebumps’ theme or theme is missing; after 54 minutes, this record leaves you feeling like you haven’t said everything yet (in enough detail); comparisons to the previous three studio albums show Extremely fast Before 2002, they were just operating in a completely different realm than they are today.
Like its direct predecessor “340 dead, no ownership as of February 13, 2024” From this aspect, what can really fail is only because of one’s past. If so, this album does it in a touching way: emotionally thrilling, tragically shocking, and also with a feel-good familiarity.

Begin with an extremely patient introduction The sun is a hole The sun is steam Like the awakening of a desolate Wild West panorama before guitar playing baby in thundercloud To sink into a slumber so desolate and sad that one thinks of oneself Extremely fast-Being in such a landscape must make people feel particularly lost and lonely; there is no hope at all. Timothy Herzog and Aiden Girt casually turn numbers into jazz twin peaks Keeping it up to speed in a dance-like manner, early on talks about the often interesting drum work on the record. Also applicable to ancestral customs, new behavioral patterns of association do talk think include. this is typical Extremely fast And it’s more gripping and direct.”interesting”. There was no apparent outburst from the band, but instead walked away in a picturesque, resigned, indecisive manner. The late climaxes are more joyful, liberating and heroic: no other band has been able to transform the inherently conservative character of post-rock into such reliable and epochal magic.
So what? lead raindrops (After its long, beeping, shimmering intro, which has already made a huge impression live, it now also creates a mesmerizingly hypnotic, subdued unease and solemn tone in studio form , just to clean up the only sample stop on the album and had Michelle Federer Fuentes recite) will eventually be launched into the sky, which has actually been done countless times similar Heard it from the band. What’s special is that this time I also feel familiar. same but different– Conveys a sense of absolute control over over-the-top Valkyrie riding, designed specifically for this moment, and it doesn’t happen anywhere else.

Bizarre otherworldly suspense horror The Broken Spires of Death Capital The original fear then serves as a claustrophobic score, and in a seamless transition, the introduction is primarily provided Pale spectators taking photoswhich marches bravely through the ghost world. The bass’s voice is world-weary, the violin’s sound unsettlingly threatening: the orchestra has never sounded heavier. In a slow, viscous grind loop, a tinkling barrage of cymbals replaces the piercing alarm bells and allows itself to be guided by delicious grooves into clear, self-contained swirls. Huge!
Where else Gray rubble – green buds When the current single stood on its own, it displayed an impressive routine of suspense, and now, when taken into context, the number’s catharsis is a triumphant perfection. As a strangely conciliatory closing credits, the album loops around the journey that came before, more intense and fulfilling, but of course leaving you confused by the record’s unmistakable anchor title, and the liner’s Comments from “As of February 13, 2024, 340 people have died” Echoes in sad poetry.

Simple facts ==
We drifted while arguing. Every day there is a new war crime, every day a flower blooms.
We sat in one room together to write and then sat in another room to record.
Untitled = What gestures make sense when tiny bodies fall? What background? What broken melody?
Then there’s a count and a date to mark a point on the line, a process of negative numbers, an ever-growing pile.
The sun was setting on a bed of ash as we sat and argued.
The old world order almost pretended not to care. This new century will be even more brutal.
War is coming.
Don’t give up.
Choose a side.

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