Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announce New Album G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!

Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced a new album called G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! Produced by Jace Lasek, the follow-up to 2017’s Luciferian Towers is out April 2 via Constellation. Scroll down for the cover art and very long tracklist, as well as an audio trailer for the record. The band also called for the abolition of prisons, police, imperialism, and the rich in a statement, which you can read in full below.

The band has urged fans to buy the album—which is available as a lavish vinyl package, in addition to other formats—from independent stores, dozens of which have been sent a promotional 10″ record. There will be no advance singles on “SpotifApple or other streaming platforms,” the press release notes.

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G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!:

01 A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) (4521.0kHz 6730.0kHz 4109.09kHz) / Job’s Lament / First of the Last Glaciers / where we break how we shine (ROCKETS FOR MARY)
02 Fire at Static Valley
03 “GOVERNMENT CAME” (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz) / Cliffs Gaze / cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE
04 OUR SIDE HAS TO WIN (for D.H.)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!

Godspeed You! Black Emperor:

we wrote it on the road mostly. when that was still a place.
and then recorded it in masks later, distanced at the beginning of the second wave. 
it was autumn, and the falling sun was impossibly fat and orange. 
we tried to summon a brighter reckoning there,
bent beneath varied states of discomfort, worry and wonderment. 

we fired up the shortwave radios again, for the first time in a long time.
and found that many things had changed. 
the apocalypse pastors were still there, but yelling END TIMES NOW where they once yelled “end times soon”.
and the transmission-detritus of automated militaries takes up more bandwidth now,
so that a lot of frequencies are just pulses of rising white static,
digital codexes announcing the status of various watching and killing machines.
and the ham-radio dads talk to each other all night long.
about their dying wives and what they ate for lunch and what they’ll do with their guns when antifa comes.

this record is about all of us waiting for the end. 
all current forms of governance are failed.
this record is about all of us waiting for the beginning, 
and is informed by the following demands=
empty the prisons
take power from the police and give it to the neighbourhoods that they terrorise.
end the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.
tax the rich until they’re impoverished.

much love to all the other lost and lovely ones,
these are death-times and our side has to win.
we’ll see you on the road once the numbers fall.