Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven is the second studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released as a double album on 9 October 2000 on vinyl by Constellation and on CD by Kranky. The album consists of four 20-minute songs divided into movements, usually consisting of instrumental crescendos, with occasional use of field recordings. Though the band’s output is politically-motivated, the overall tone is more hopeful than their prior work. Recording was conducted in February 2000 in Chemical Sound Studios, Toronto, and was derived from the band’s live performances and guitarist Efrim Menuck’s experience in film-making studies. Packaging contains liner notes dedicating the album to prisoners, a diagram illustrating each of the movement’s sound, and William Schaff’s artwork from the zine Notes to a Friend; Silently Listening No. 2. The album has received critical acclaim, with many critics finding the composition to be beautiful and sprawling, though comparisons to the band’s prior discography were mixed. It has been listed on multiple year-end and decade-end lists.
Tracklisting
- Storm (21:59)
- Static (21:07)
- Sleep (21:12)
- Antennas To Heaven…
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| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Your_Skinny_Fists_like_Antennas_to_Heaven |
| Format | Vinyl 2× LP Album |
| Label | Constellation |
| Catalog Number | cst012 |
| Notes | Recorded at Chemical Sound during 9 days in February 2000. (other scraps of tape were magnetized all over the last 4 years at the mighty hôtel2tango.) Inner sleeve drawings and inspiration for front cover from ’notes to a friend; silently listening’ no. 2. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves and packaged in a clear plastic sleeve with barcode and “Made in Canada” on sticker. Some copies include the Constellation Records catalog sheet from Autumn 2000. On inner sleeve: Thank you: hugsum, wherehouse, reitschule, l’x… (minutemen, weather underground, symptomhall…) |
| Discogs URL | Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven |