Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! | Album Reviews | Pitchfork

Two weeks ago came the surprise announcement of a new album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, their first in 10 years. If they felt like a band of the moment around the turn of the millennium, now, in a time of rapid cultural turnover and bite-sized music consumption, Godspeed feel out of step in a very necessary way.
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