Godspeed You Black Emperor - No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead

Canadian post-rock maestros Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced a new album called “No Title As of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead”. Available as double vinyl and CD, it arrives October 4 via Constellation. Below, listen to the album’s nearly seven-minute closing track, “Grey Rubble – Green Shoots,”.

The title of “No Title As of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead” refers to a death toll of Palestinians, as reported by Gaza’s Health Ministry, in Israel’s war in Gaza. In a statement with the album announcement, available in full below, the Canadian post-rock band said, “NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody? and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile.”.........

THE PLAIN TRUTH=
we drifted through it, arguing.
every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom.
we sat down together and wrote it in one room,
and then sat down in a different room, recording.
NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies
fall? what context? what broken melody?
and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line,
the negative process, the growing pile.
the sun setting above beds of ash
while we sat together, arguing.
the old world order barely pretended to care.
this new century will be crueler still.
war is coming.
don’t give up.
pick a side.
hang on.
love.    

Tracklist:
1 SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS
2 BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD
3 RAINDROPS CAST IN LEAD
4 BROKEN SPIRES AT DEAD KAPITAL
5 PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS
6 GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS