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Godspeeed You! Black Emperor: No Title As of 13 February 2024, 28,340 Dead review – powerfully brilliant
With their best work for two decades, the Canadian post-rockers have made an urgent soundtrack for an uncertain and dangerous world
So it perhaps isn’t hugely surprising that their first album in three years sees them become one of the few western acts to release music that explicitly references the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, from the blunt album title through to the press release’s reference to “every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom”. Raindrops Cast in Lead builds slowly via a repeating motif on distorted guitar, before a gentle interlude precedes a squalling climax that is far more Sturm than Drang. Album closer Grey Rubble – Green Shoots ends more contemplatively, with Sophie Trudeau’s violin to the fore, the band taking a step back from the abyss.
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