Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada

1. Moya

2. BBF3

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 1999
This nine-piece Montreal collective sketches large-scale sonic landscapes using everything from strings to samples. Exceedingly plush and atmospheric, Slow Riot funnels a dramatic undercurrent through their music, adding an undeniably cinematic quality--especially in a section featuring the paranoid rants of a street person. The result is a grand and swirling melange with a sweeping scope and an elevating sense of tension. --S. Duda

Amazon.com
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada may last only half an hour, but in that time it imparts an internal experience akin to that of watching a cast-of-thousands Hollywood epic. Godspeed You Black Emperor! are a Montreal-based nine-piece ensemble that uses massed strings, ringing electric guitars, and martial drums to evoke endless vistas and stir strong emotions. "Moya" opens with a solemn drone overlaid with resonant violin overtones, then builds to a crashing, unapologetically melodramatic climax. The CD's second (and final) selection, "Blaise Bailey Finegan III," is more ambitious. Like a director who grabs his audience's tear ducts with both fists, the group inserts field recordings of a ranting paranoiac between sweeping spaghetti-Western passages that rise to exhilarating multiple crescendos, then fall away to ghostly, echoed violins. --Bill Meyer

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Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada

Average customer rating:

sombre tones
rebuttal to those who feel it is unpatriotic.
Perhaps my favorite album yet written.
essential doesn't begin to describe it
Best EP i've ever experienced

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Manufacturer: Kranky
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I8NC
Release Date: 1999-04-06

Tracks:

Moya
BBF3

Amazon.com's Best of 1999

This nine-piece Montreal collective sketches large-scale sonic landscapes using everything from strings to samples. Exceedingly plush and atmospheric, Slow Riot funnels a dramatic undercurrent through their music, adding an undeniably cinematic quality--especially in a section featuring the paranoid rants of a street person. The result is a grand and swirling melange with a sweeping scope and an elevating sense of tension. --S. Duda

Amazon.com

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada may last only half an hour, but in that time it imparts an internal experience akin to that of watching a cast-of-thousands Hollywood epic. Godspeed You Black Emperor! are a Montreal-based nine-piece ensemble that uses massed strings, ringing electric guitars, and martial drums to evoke endless vistas and stir strong emotions. "Moya" opens with a solemn drone overlaid with resonant violin overtones, then builds to a crashing, unapologetically melodramatic climax. The CD's second (and final) selection, "Blaise Bailey Finegan III," is more ambitious. Like a director who grabs his audience's tear ducts with both fists, the group inserts field recordings of a ranting paranoiac between sweeping spaghetti-Western passages that rise to exhilarating multiple crescendos, then fall away to ghostly, echoed violins. --Bill Meyer

Customer Reviews:

sombre tones.......2007-05-14

the first godspeed album (if they can be so descibed) i was exposed to was "raise your skinny fists like antennas to heaven" which literally blew me away. the band never appears to be in any rush, your mind wanders and then suddenly you find yourself in a world devoid of sanity. and as quickly as it came it drops off. the great thing about godspeed is that no one is singing pissy lyrics, the band knows thier strenghs and play to them. "slow riot" does not let down. its short but fulfilling. the highlight is blaise blaiseys apoliptic poem about the shortcomings of peedsamerican constitutionalism set aginst the various wailings of godspeeds noises. the story about parking tickets is also intriging, if somewhat similar to the sample on djshadows introducing..... anyway if you like godspeed, buy it. if you have a nervous disposition and are liable to be induced into insanity by your surroundings, buy it aswell and watch the fireworks

rebuttal to those who feel it is unpatriotic........2006-06-08

Okay, we all know Godspeed is liberal and in opposition to a lot of our and canada's political ideas, however BBF3 is not anti-American, it is about gun-control. The piece is about the combination of anger and a loose grip on reality. The political aspect is the realization that such a person could possibly have the arsenol he descirbes. His hatred for the American government is not the band's stance, it's used to provide a soundtrack to desperation, anger, and helplessness. And this song, broken into two parts, is amazing in it's ability to convey such emotion.

Perhaps my favorite album yet written........2006-04-25

Can't say enough. This is a masterpiece, pure and simple. I'm a fan of the "post-rock" genre; Explosions, Mogwai, Do Make Say Think, etc. In my opinion -- these bands, though I love them deeply in my heart, just can't morph into the plane Godspeed YBE! often reaches. Well, that isn't entirely true; Mogwai, for example, CAN, but their problem is they never quite do it for an extended period of time. For 30 straight minutes, "Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada!" provides meditative, thought-provoking music that is at once indispensible for its musical prowess, but really, a masterwork because it manages to evoke an unprecedented amount of self-induced abstract thought.

Godspeed YBE! seems to be classified as pretentious or self-indulgent more often than I'd prefer to see. My response to that? Who cares. Is the band's intent obvious? Without question. Attacking the current state of the world (musically) in all its missteps and overall anguish is not a difficult thing to do, in theory. Anyone with a brain (and perhaps a heart) can look around and witness the contrast between what Humanity has become, and what Humanity could be. What makes Godspeed YBE! so wonderful, however, is that they do it properly -- with intellect, sincerity, honesty, devestation, and a general sense of idealism that is so far from currently being met one can't help but be moved during the album's apt running time. They do it on such a large scale that it really defies description; very few pieces of modern music seem to be able to so perfectly capture the sort of existential emotions that are as large as Life itself. Here, we have them.

So really, where one might criticize Godspeed YBE!'s overall intention, I would merely say that it's done with such profundity that any real sense of self-indulgence is transcended because this is, in my opinion, selfless music. It's just a matter of perception. Like other great pieces of art, Godspeed YBE! is finding the utmost brilliance possible within an existence that doesn't come close to meeting it. Within the despair is a gleaming sense of hope that noone can take away from us. This is not depressing music -- it is empowering and cathartic.

"Slow Riot" proves to be my favorite Godspeed YBE! album because I believe here they mastered their formula, somewhat described above. Musically, it is mesmerizing. "Moya" is my favorite piece the band has ever written, and while "Blaise Bailey Finnegan III" isn't quite as memorable or pop-natured, it is easily the more evocatively constructed work. The band's previous album, "F#A# Infinity", was heavy but erratic, and never reached any sort of climax the way "Slow Riot" manages to. Likewise, "Lift Your Skinny Fists", while providing some moments of musical genius, is by-and-large a far less emotive and cerebral a work. "Yanqui Y.X.O.", quite frankly, just doesn't do it for me, and even more so than this album, finds its merit simply within what it's trying to convey opposed to a good deal of musical warrant.

I'm going off the deep end here but I just want to say that this album is close to me -- perhaps more so than any other. Godspeed YBE! might be my favorite band if only for this album -- as I said, their others, despite flashes of Godliness, are too flawed. The band's spin-off group, "A Silver Mt. Zion", fares better overall, and anyone who finds a home within Godspeed YBE!'s realm of music should go buy every one of SMZ's works. Nonetheless, this is a dreamy, romantic, introspective look at the world around us, and endlessly impresses me each time I listen to it.

essential doesn't begin to describe it.......2006-04-11

I have always thought, and still do to this very day, that "BBF3" is the most powerful piece of music ever recorded. It's like the depth and power of _Lift Your Skinny Fists_ and the absolute majesty and divinity of _Lateralus_ coalesced and condensed into a solitary 15-minute piece that defies the preconceptions of how deeply something as ubiquitous as music can affect the human spirit and forever alter the mindset of an individual. yeah, it's the best song ever.

Best EP i've ever experienced.......2006-03-07

This EP has more depth than most bands full LP's. The music is as incredible as anything they have done, and with a total run time of 28 minutes, i dont feel like it is not worth bringing around with me (as i do with most EP's containing a few songs). One thing that i feel about the music is that i feel it is actually more fast paced when it comes to the build up than most of their records, which could be a goodthing or a bad thing (depending on what you like about GY!BE). True that the political speaking is intense and in many ways resemblant of a James Nichols rant, but i feel that it is just as extreme as the samples they have used on previous records. They usually use rough sounding people for their backgrounds, but i also saw it more as satire. But all that aside, the music on this record is phenomenal and truely worth the purchase. So make yourself happy, and buy this work of beauty.

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