There is a "difference" between the music made by certain common bands within the history of music and the music made by the "supergroups", this "difference" is very simple, common bands leave a small mark in this world being remembered For the occasional good song, a decent album, and entertaining concerts that easily go out of style, "supergroups" often leave a huge mark that is timeless in its influence and importance to all generations.
In the world of Rock we always talk about the same thing, we have seen Queen, AC / DC, Bowie, Guns N Roses, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, The Doors and hundreds of groups in hundreds of thousands of tributes and halls of fame, but , there will always be the other side of the coin, and that ladies and gentlemen, is Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Idols who reject fame, of Canadian blood and anarchist spirit, sick of the military / industrial concept implemented by the most famous record labels and the lack of feeling in popular songs, where they fill us with the concept of a "Happy" life with the false image of fancy cars, drugs, sex and party. The band in its debut ventured to release one of the most important albums in the world of Rock, "F # A # (Infinity)" where creativity has no boundaries of any kind.
The band goes under the label of "Post-Rock" to summarize the huge range of genres found in all its tracks, among them we can find songs of no less than 15 minutes, which include elements of progressive rock, Avant music- Garde and Neoclassical, certain electronic elements of the Drone, fragments of interviews and on one occasion or another, punk tinges (to name just a small part) that at first can sound very pretentious and boring, but as they are listened patiently , we are dealing with some masterpieces.
"The Dead Flag Blues": a gloomy, bleak, isolated intro, as if it swallowed our soul in the beginning that reminds us a lot of the pandemic and the destruction it has left in its wake. With a duration of 16 minutes, it contains a fragment of a film in which said landscape mentions us according to the end of the world, "the car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel" (the car is on fire, and there is no driver behind the wheel) referring to the world order, this subdivision as it were known as intro, and lasts until minute 3, "We're inside of the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death" (We are inside the stomach of this horrible machine, and the machine bleeds to death.) that continues with "Slow Moving Trains" another movement where the violin twists like a Roman torture and the guitar plays his funeral. Changing to "The Cowboy .." another movement where he is more optimistic, such as escape from a city full of infected zombies, and of course the outro where the violin sounds with dementia and temporary joy.
"East Hastings": the song that changed rock forever both underground and mainstream, so much so that even film director Danny Boyle asks the band for permission to use this theme in his movie "28 days later". from various subdivisions, "Nothing's Alrite in Our Life / The Dead Flag Blues (Reprise)" a voice of a crazy guy on the streets, speaking of a not-too-distant and chaotic future alongside the sound of a Scottish bagpipe (1:54 ), connects with "The Sad Mafioso" a heavy and post-apocalyptic instrument of 10 minutes where the violin and cello are the conductors, which gives way to a rather surprising pause and to "Drugs in Tokyo" where the emotion and the epic take control of the entire orchestra, like a wave of zombies fleeing to get into a helicopter (Black Helicopter)
"Providence": being the final stage, the helicopter falls, we are in the middle of a forest full of infected scattered everywhere who try to kill us "Divorce & Fever" is a very tense beginning, you feel like everyone is watching you, but you can't see them, so you walk amid the Machiavellian sound of guitar and violin. "Dead Metheny" (8:00) gives us a reason to run, all the instruments play to the rhythm of an emerging tornado, fleeing from something totally unknown without looking back, you can only hear grunts of beasts that want to dismember you, jumping towards a cliff without depth, a ghostly voice of a woman wakes you up and you go to victory with "Kicking Horse on Brokenhill" to flee from that haunted forest. You look at the horizon with faith while "J.L.H Outro" sounds, the most representative closing of the band, aware that although everything is falling apart, you have to move on.