Godspeed You! Black Emperor Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! – review

(Constellation)A decade on from their split, this Montreal collective still sound like nothing else. Comprising two hypnotic 20-minute epics and two short, drone-based pieces, the reformed band's sixth album continues where 2002's Yanqui UXO left off, with a barrage of surging crescendos, drones and shimmering strings. The allure of the opening Mladic hinges on thudding rhythmic threats, all eight musicians lost in a storm of feral energy. After the menacing ambience of We Drift Like Worried Fir...

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