Yanqui U.X.O., by Godspeed You Black Emperor (Double LP on Constellation)

A Norman Records recommendation (8th January 2007)

Description:	Dbl LP on Constellation	UK ORDERS OVER £50 SHIP FREE!
Format:	Double LP
Label:	Constellation
Price:	£13.29
Catalogue number:	CST024-1
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Rating: ecstatic This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.

Godspeed are back with a brand new double album and compact disc. What do you think it's gonna be like then? Bet you could just guess what's it's gonna be like. More of the same I hear you cry??? Well yeh it is even with Albini at the mantle it doesn't sound drastically different. But it's most enjoyable. Usually I'd slag folks off for being one trick pony's cos you need more than that in this day and age to impress with the wealth of music being offered week after week. But they do it so well bless 'em. 3 tracks (spread out over 5 tracks on the CD which I don't understand at all) totalling 75 mins. Yeh it's got it's mellow drawn out boring bits but it's also got the big balls out pompous kick ass bits too. Yanqui U.X.O is a bit of a result really.....

What the label says:

U.X.O. is unexploded ordnance is landmines is cluster bombs. Yanqui is post-colonial imperialism is international police state is multinational corporate oligarchy. Godspeed You! Black Emperor is complicit is guilty is resisting. The new album is just raw, angry, dissonant, epic instrumental rock. Recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago and mixed by Howard Bilerman and Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the Hotel2Tango in Montreal. Stubborn tiny lights vs. clustering darkness forever ok?