"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Given legendary Canadian post rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s previous bold political stances against the American military-industrial complex, we all understood that their next album would deliver a powerful statement against the ongoing genocide in Palestine. "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD", reveals a band openly struggling to express the depths of depraved evil endured by victims of genocide. Their response returns to their more varied, dynamic sound and a willingness to balance every moment of broad, epic, orchestral strokes with tense, pensive, thin drones, mirroring the paradoxical elevation of every monotonous, punishing moment of a victim’s existence to a valiant struggle for survival. For fans who may have strayed away from Godspeed in the reunion years once they took up a more self-consciously grandiose aesthetic, this album brings back all the genuine humility that set this band apart from everything else labeled as neoclassical, just in time for them to comment on a moment they’ve been warning us against for thirty years.