6: Godspeed You! Black emperor – Storm

Length: 22:32
Year: 2000
Appearance: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
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A post-rock song with symphonic qualities, separated into four movements.
1. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Like Antennas to Heaven... (Lasting until 06:15)
2. Gathering Storm/Il Pleut à Mourir [+Clatters Like Worry] (Lasting until 17:25)
3. "'Welcome to Barco [sic] AM/PM...' [L.A.X 5/14/00]" (Lasting until 18:40)
4. "Cancer Towers on Holy Road Hi-Way" (Lasting until 22:32)

The song starts out in a mood of melancholic comfortableness accompanied by soothing string and horn instruments of various kinds. Slowly, things start to build with layers after layers of instrumentation together with a more and more uplifting atmosphere. At the best moments of the song it’s like soaring in the air with these mighty walls of sound, awaiting a violent explosion. But the explosion remains absent, and the song instead drones away for a lengthy amount of time, but it just feels natural. What doesn’t sound as natural are the second and forth movements: The third movement is just a random recording, and the fourth just random recordings with a piano, both of these which feels entirely separated from the song and should be so. But after all, despite the greatness of this band, Godspeed is still stuck in the post-rock status quo so these types of quirky pretensions which adds nothing to the music is just something you’ll have to learn to accept, like it or not. Most definitely not.