Godspeed You! Black Emperor* – 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend
Label: | Constellation – CST081-1 |
|---|---|
Format: | Vinyl, LP Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM All Media, Album |
Country: | USA & Canada |
Released: | |
Genre: | Electronic, Rock |
Style: | Post Rock, Drone |
Tracklist
| A | Mladic | 19:54 | |
| B | We Drift Like Worried Fire | 19:58 | |
| C | Their Helicopters' Sing | 6:30 | |
| D | Strung Like Lights At Thee Printemps Erable | 6:31 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Hotel2Tango
- Mixed At – The Pines
- Mastered At – Grey Market Mastering
- Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BC79427
- Pressed By – Optimal Media GmbH – BC79428
- Lacquer Cut At – Optimal Media GmbH
Credits
- Artwork [All Other Images By] – Bryant*, Menuck*, Lemieux*
- Artwork [Burnt 16mm Frames By] – Karl Lemieux
- Band [God's Pee Was] – Aidan Girt, Bruce Cawdron, David Bryant, Efrim Manuel Menuck*, Karl Lemieux, Mauro Pezzente, Michael Moya*, Sophie Trudeau, Thierry Amar
- Bass Guitar – Mauro Pezzente
- Drums – Aidan Girt
- Drums, Vibraphone, Marimba, Glockenspiel – Bruce Cawdron
- Electric Bass, Contrabass [Contrebasse], Cello – Thierry Amar
- Electric Guitar – Michael Moya*
- Electric Guitar, Dulcimer, Keyboards [Portasound], Kemenche [Kemençe] – David Bryant
- Electric Guitar, Hurdy Gurdy – Efrim Manuel Menuck*
- Lacquer Cut By – HL*
- Mastered By – Harris Newman
- Other [16-mm Film Projections] – Karl Lemieux
- Photography By ['Atonal Canada' Photo] – Timothy Herzog*
- Photography By [Burnt 16MM Frames Re-photographed By] – Mr. Yannick Grandmont*
- Photography By [Front Cover Photo] – Charles-André Coderre
- Recorded By – Howard Bilerman (tracks: A, B)
- Recorded By, Mixed By – Bryant* (tracks: C, D), Menuck* (tracks: C, D), Moya* (tracks: C, D), Amar* (tracks: C, D)
- Violin, Keyboards [SK5] – Sophie Trudeau
Notes
Housed in a tipped-on heavyweight gatefold jacket printed in full color with spot-metallic ink and spot-matte varnish.
The LP is pressed on 180g vinyl and housed in a 4-color printed dust sleeve with a center hole cut to display the record label on either side.
The 7" is housed in a printed dust sleeve. Includes a folded 12" x 48" poster (printed in full color on both sides) featuring a collage of film stills specially photographed and captured from the GY!BE live 16mm projections and a download code card for Godspeed You Black Emperor! - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend to be used from 15th October 2012.
From the back cover:
“Wreck’d us our countrie’s amok torn thru with birds thee sky’s a bruis’d unreckoning thee shore’s bled dry but tepid waters.
To bury the lead in trebl’d biss, thatch the following-
Bucket-Wire, Dung, God’s Pee
(decant-incant-recant)
Our cities' grace and pain a stinkin’ wind – a plague of policemen and our dreams, alit, sinking in the harbour thee onlookers’ stare.”
From the LP sleeve:
“What we brought, what we wrought, what we got”
Sides A and B were recorded at thee mighty Hotel2Tango. Sides C and D recorded in concrete jamspace and mixed at The Pines. All of it mastered at Greymarket.
All other images by Bryant or Menuck or Lemieux.
Thanks: Doria, Wilkie, Ilavsky, Hugsam, Tommy W., Mary & Fred & The Great American Music Hall, SI, Timothy H., JEM, D. D'andrea, Latham, Patrick in The Hotel Basement, Pierced Arrows Forever & Anarchopanda.
“Fuck Le Plan Nord. Fuck La Loi 78. Montreal right now forever.”
Printed on barcode sticker:
Made in Canada
Other notes:
The artist is credited on the actual release only as "God's Pee", printed on the back cover, spine, and dust sleeve. Some copies have "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" printed on a front-cover sticker.
While noted here as sides A, B, C, D, the center labels list them respectively as sides A1, A2, B1, B2.
The dust sleeve artwork suggests listening in the order of A1, B1, A2, B2 (or A, C, B, D) to match the CD pressing.
The YouTube video referenced in the runout groove of side D is "Once Upon a Time in Athens: The Legend of the Riot Dog", showing various photos of Loukanikos, a stray dog that was present at many protests in Greece around 2010.
Runouts are etched, except for the OpticalMedia GmbH identifiers (which are laser-etched).
Lacquer cutting company/engineer, vinyl pressing company derived from runouts.
The LP is pressed on 180g vinyl and housed in a 4-color printed dust sleeve with a center hole cut to display the record label on either side.
The 7" is housed in a printed dust sleeve. Includes a folded 12" x 48" poster (printed in full color on both sides) featuring a collage of film stills specially photographed and captured from the GY!BE live 16mm projections and a download code card for Godspeed You Black Emperor! - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend to be used from 15th October 2012.
From the back cover:
“Wreck’d us our countrie’s amok torn thru with birds thee sky’s a bruis’d unreckoning thee shore’s bled dry but tepid waters.
To bury the lead in trebl’d biss, thatch the following-
Bucket-Wire, Dung, God’s Pee
(decant-incant-recant)
Our cities' grace and pain a stinkin’ wind – a plague of policemen and our dreams, alit, sinking in the harbour thee onlookers’ stare.”
From the LP sleeve:
“What we brought, what we wrought, what we got”
Sides A and B were recorded at thee mighty Hotel2Tango. Sides C and D recorded in concrete jamspace and mixed at The Pines. All of it mastered at Greymarket.
All other images by Bryant or Menuck or Lemieux.
Thanks: Doria, Wilkie, Ilavsky, Hugsam, Tommy W., Mary & Fred & The Great American Music Hall, SI, Timothy H., JEM, D. D'andrea, Latham, Patrick in The Hotel Basement, Pierced Arrows Forever & Anarchopanda.
“Fuck Le Plan Nord. Fuck La Loi 78. Montreal right now forever.”
Printed on barcode sticker:
Made in Canada
Other notes:
The artist is credited on the actual release only as "God's Pee", printed on the back cover, spine, and dust sleeve. Some copies have "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" printed on a front-cover sticker.
While noted here as sides A, B, C, D, the center labels list them respectively as sides A1, A2, B1, B2.
The dust sleeve artwork suggests listening in the order of A1, B1, A2, B2 (or A, C, B, D) to match the CD pressing.
The YouTube video referenced in the runout groove of side D is "Once Upon a Time in Athens: The Legend of the Riot Dog", showing various photos of Loukanikos, a stray dog that was present at many protests in Greece around 2010.
Runouts are etched, except for the OpticalMedia GmbH identifiers (which are laser-etched).
Lacquer cutting company/engineer, vinyl pressing company derived from runouts.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text on shrinkwrap): 6 66561 00811 6
- Barcode (String on shrinkwrap): 666561008116
- Matrix / Runout (Side A variant 1): BC79427-01 A1 HL TWO THOUSAND STONED KIDS WILL BE STOKED
- Matrix / Runout (Side B variant 1): BC79427-01 B1 HL TOO BAD THEY DON'T VOTE
- Matrix / Runout (Side C variant 1): BC79428-01 A1 HL FOR LOUKANIKOS
- Matrix / Runout (Side D variant 1): BC79428-01 B1 HL youtube.com/watch?v=lFd0hztEUWk
- Matrix / Runout (Side A variant 2): BC79427-01 A2 HL TWO THOUSAND STONED KIDS WILL BE STOKED
- Matrix / Runout (Side B variant 2): BC79427-01 B1 HL TOO BAD THEY DON'T VOTE
- Matrix / Runout (Side C variant 2): BC79428-01 A1 HL FOR LOUKANIKOS
- Matrix / Runout (Side D variant 2): BC79428-01 B1 HL youtube.com/watch?v=lFd0hztEUWk
- Matrix / Runout (Side A variant 3): BC79427-01 A3 HL TWO THOUSAND STONED KIDS WILL BE STOKED +E
- Matrix / Runout (Side B variant 3): BC79427-01 B1 HL TOO BAD THEY DON'T VOTE 1+T
- Matrix / Runout (Side C variant 3): BC79428-01 A2 HL FOR LOUKANIKOS 1G
- Matrix / Runout (Side D variant 3): BC79428-01 B2 HL youtube.com/watch?v=lFd0hztEUWk 5F
Other Versions (5 of 8)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recently Edited | 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend (CD, Album) | Constellation | CST081-2 | Canada | 2012 | ||
Recently Edited | 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend (4×File, MP3, Album, 256 kbps) | Constellation | CST081 | 2012 | |||
New Submission | 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (4×File, MP3, Album, VBR) | Constellation | none | Germany | 2012 | ||
New Submission | 'Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend (CD, Album) | P-Vine Records, Constellation | PCD-17587, CST081-2 | Japan | 2012 | ||
| Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (4×File, AAC, Album) | Constellation | none | 2012 |
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Reviews
Bought it on release (from amazon actually) but it sounds great, i love the fact that it's on a 12" & a 7" both play at different speeds, i was worried they'd never release another album, but they did, i'm very happy, the dynamics sound great on this, my set up is not special either, but my vinyl sounds great on it .
How do I tell this apart from the other press?- This label, Constellation presses horrible sounding records. and this one is no exception. Save your money and buy the files because this sounds heavily compressed. All the instruments are blended in together in one huge and imposing bloc. There is no soundstage, no dynamics, it feels as though the music is all in your head. No feeling whatsoever. Too bad because the music is really good...
never seen an album pressed on 2 discs of different sizes before. are you intended to listen to 12" side a, then 7" side a, then 12" side b, then 7" side b?
What's on the 7-inch??? I see no mention of it on this page, nor anywhere else
my copy sounds bad, too bad because the packaging is great.
My copy sounds great, it's barely noisy, other than at the last minutes of side B1. Too bad the etched Youtube URL doesn't work anymore. It's a nice piece of history.
It's okay. I was found wanting.
I bought this when it came out. but now just realized that I didn't get any 7" along with it. I didn't even know it was supposed to come with one? Damn, I sort of feel gypped.
I find the vinyl kind of noisy, obviously in the more silent parts. Very lame vinyl quality, considering i got a new/unplayed copy.
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