If there’s one band that manages to achieve both simultaneously – looking inward and outward at the same time, escapist and engaged in our external reality – it’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Arguably, the band’s sense of sonic scale is unrivalled by any other band termed post-rock. The listener is stranded within sound, swept up in a tide of guitars, percussion, strings, voices and landscapes. Bobbing upon the waves are vibrant and urgent images of the world we inhabit, devoid of a particular political agenda but too massive to ignore. Like photographers, Godspeed present startling sensations
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