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Nominator: Lazman321 (talk · contribs) 19:46, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: LunaEclipse (talk · contribs) 19:17, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Picking this one up. I love GY!BE's music, and I'm happy this is at GAN. I'll get to this in the following days. 💽 LunaEclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ ^{(CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST)} 19:17, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

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• The album consists of four 20-minute songs divided into internal movements. The music often consists of instrumental crescendos, with occasional use of field recordings. → The album consists of four 20-minute songs divided into movements, usually consisting of instrumental crescendos, with occasional use of field recordings.
  • WL movements.
• Recording was conducted in February 2000 in Chemical Sound Studios, Toronto, and was derived from the band's live performances and Menuk's experience in film-making studies. → Recording was conducted in February 2000 in Chemical Sound Studios, Toronto, and was derived from the band's live performances and leader Efrim Menuck's experience in film-making studies.
• Packaging contains liner notes dedicating the album to prisoners, illustrating each of the movement's sound, and using William Schaff's artwork from the zine Notes to a Friend; Silently Listening No. 2. → Packaging contains liner notes dedicating the album to prisoners, which illustrate each of the movement's sound, alongside William Schaff's artwork from the zine Notes to a Friend; Silently Listening No. 2.
• The album has received critical acclaim and has been listed on multiple year-end and decade-end lists. Could you clarify what elements of the album's music did professional critics like or dislike?

Background and composition

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Montreal band that formed in 1994; the band hails from the Canadian post-rock scene, with the band's label Constellation being a central part of the scene, though both Constellation founder Ian Ilavsky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor guitarist Efrim Menuck have stated that they see their music as more punk rock than post-rock. → Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Montreal band formed in 1994; the band hails from the Canadian post-rock scene. The band's label Constellation plays a central role, although both founder Ian Ilavsky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor guitarist Efrim Menuck have stated they see their music as more punk rock than post-rock.
• Their early work leading up to Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven "[came] across like an attempt to blend divinity and human folly atop the same sonic canvas," according to The A.V. Club's Andrew Paul, with the music conveying humanity's hopelessness and self-destruction. → According to The A.V. Club's Andrew Paul, their early work leading up to Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven "[came] across like an attempt to blend divinity and human folly atop the same sonic canvas," with the music conveying humanity's hopelessness and self-destruction.
• I recommend adding an excerpt from the album to help readers understand its composition beyond the article's prose.
• Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven is a post-rock album consisting of four 20-minute tracks divided into movements: "Storm", "Static", "Sleep", and "Antennas to Heaven". Godspeed You! Black Emperor recorded the album in Chemical Sound Studios, Toronto, in nine days in February 2000 with Daryl Smith, using material drawn from the band's recent live performances. → Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven is a post-rock album consisting of four 20-minute tracks divided into movements: "Storm", "Static", "Sleep", and "Antennas to Heaven". Godspeed You! Black Emperor recorded the album in Chemical Sound Studios, Toronto, in nine days in February 2000 with Daryl Smith, using material drawn from the band's then-recent live performances.
• The instrumentation involved string instruments, guitars, pianos, and static. Most of the album is instrumental, often consisting of crescendos from "slow and vaporous" music to "towering waves of sound" before dissipating.
  • WL crescendos and static.
• In a 2012 Guardian interview, the band collectively stated that, contrary to popular belief, their intent from the beginning was to create "heavy music, joyously" that acknowledged yet dismissed the bleakness of contemporary times. → In a 2012 interview from the Guardian, the band collectively stated their intent from the beginning was to create "heavy music, joyously" that acknowledged yet dismissed the bleakness of contemporary times, contrary to popular belief.
• Jeanette Leech argued in Fearless: the Making of Post-Rock that Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven represented this ideal. → Jeanette Leech argued Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven represented this ideal in Fearless: the Making of Post-Rock.

Release and packaging

• The typewritten liner notes jokingly refer to the band as "god's pee"; refer to the songs as “more awkward pirouettes in the general direction of hope joy” and "a tentative stagger towards the pale&holy FADING light"; and dedicate the album to prisoners, alongside "quiet refusals, loud refusals, and sad refusals". → The typewritten liner notes jokingly refer to the band as "god's [sic] pee"; refer to the songs as “more awkward pirouettes in the general direction of hope [and] joy” and "a tentative stagger towards the pale [and] holy fading light"; and dedicate the album to prisoners, alongside "quiet refusals, loud refusals, and sad refusals."
• The inner panels of the vinyl edition and a paper insert in the CD edition uses a diagram drawn by Menuk to illustrate the album's movements and sound. → The inner panels of the vinyl edition and a paper insert in the CD edition uses a diagram drawn by Menuck to illustrate the album's movements and sound.
• The diagram denotes the time length and name of each movement, and uses gradients to represent the intensity of each part of a movement. → The diagram denotes the time length and name of each movement, and uses gradients to represent their intensity.
• Packaging of the album contains artwork by William Schaff from a zine titled Notes to a Friend; Silently Listening No. 2, which dealt with Schaff's struggles as a young artist. → The album's packaging contains artwork by William Schaff from a zine titled Notes to a Friend; Silently Listening No. 2, which dealt with his struggles as a young artist.
• Schaff first met Menuk at Hotel2Tango, bonding over their shared interests and themes of workers' plight. Later, after Schaff left behind some of his work at Hotel2Tango, Menuk approached Schaff for permission to use his work for the album. Schaff first met Menuk at Hotel2Tango, bonding over their shared interests and themes of workers' plight. Later, after he left behind some of his work at Hotel2Tango, Menuck approached him for permission to use his work for the album.
• One image included in the packaging depicts a skull-faced Benjamin Franklin severing Schaff's hands with shears as Schaff is signing a lease, while another depicts Schaff, his wrists bandaged, witnessing skull-faced George Washington and Franklin waving a pantsuit in front of a withdrawn woman. → One image included in the packaging depicts Benjamin Franklin severing Schaff's hands with shears as he is signing a lease, while another depicts him with his wrists bandaged, witnessing George Washington and Franklin waving a pantsuit in front of a withdrawn woman.