GY!BE's ALFOTHAD... fr? fr fr?
February 4, 2022 3:52 PM Subscribe
Whispered about on back alley forums, yearned for but never found, it's thought to be the lost first album by Canadian experimental post-rock legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor. While the band has long-assumed it would surface on the internet one day, we have so far only witnessed foul pretenders. Until now... witness All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling
Caveat auditor: this was originally uploaded by some anon on 4chan's /mu/. Make of that what you will.
Caveat auditor: this was originally uploaded by some anon on 4chan's /mu/. Make of that what you will.
Not sure why 4chan = entirely apropos to famously extremely left-wing GY!BE but go off
posted by Cpt. The Mango at 4:32 PM on February 4, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by Cpt. The Mango at 4:32 PM on February 4, 2022 [5 favorites]
I've seen a ton of chatter about this but so far no one has said whether or not it's any good. Which I assume means it's not.
posted by saladin at 5:17 PM on February 4, 2022
posted by saladin at 5:17 PM on February 4, 2022
it's, certainly some sounds
posted by Sebmojo at 5:32 PM on February 4, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by Sebmojo at 5:32 PM on February 4, 2022 [4 favorites]
Oddly, I visited /mu/ today on a whim. (I think last time I was there was maybe 3 years ago?) Ended up listening to some songs from my collection during my kid's winter storm stay at home kindergarten lunch break. And my kid loved what I played, so that was a win.
I'm always at a loss when I visit /mu/ partly due to the way people there just casually crap upon each other's musical tastes. Or declare something to be album of the year or the best album ever. And then crap on all dissent.
So I did see the GYBE leak today, but I've never listened to them. Still I downloaded it anyway. There was a screengrab supposedly from the GYBE discord server acknowledging the leak and telling people not to listen to it.
There was a thread on /mu/ I enjoyed during my brief visit -- discussing lost 'holy grail' recordings by other artists. I miss going into record shops and chatting with the people behind the counter for hours on end. I remember being on a road trip to LA with some friends once and swinging by a record shop my friend insisted we visit. A long chat with the clerk led to me buying 'Boy with the arab strap' and 'Tigermilk' and then we drove up PCH 1 with the sunroof open blasting it while my friends dozed off in the back seat. A more perfect soundtrack to the day I could not have found otherwise.
posted by Catblack at 5:41 PM on February 4, 2022 [4 favorites]
I'm always at a loss when I visit /mu/ partly due to the way people there just casually crap upon each other's musical tastes. Or declare something to be album of the year or the best album ever. And then crap on all dissent.
So I did see the GYBE leak today, but I've never listened to them. Still I downloaded it anyway. There was a screengrab supposedly from the GYBE discord server acknowledging the leak and telling people not to listen to it.
There was a thread on /mu/ I enjoyed during my brief visit -- discussing lost 'holy grail' recordings by other artists. I miss going into record shops and chatting with the people behind the counter for hours on end. I remember being on a road trip to LA with some friends once and swinging by a record shop my friend insisted we visit. A long chat with the clerk led to me buying 'Boy with the arab strap' and 'Tigermilk' and then we drove up PCH 1 with the sunroof open blasting it while my friends dozed off in the back seat. A more perfect soundtrack to the day I could not have found otherwise.
posted by Catblack at 5:41 PM on February 4, 2022 [4 favorites]
Well, in the first link, Efrim says
"I think it’s interesting, but I don’t think it’s that great! he says, laughing. It’s pretty good, but it’s not great! I think it’s mostly interesting because it’s a product of its time, and that was a weird time for music back then. There was nothing going on. So it’s interesting on that level. But musically, I don’t know how much value it has. I mean, there’s singing on it! He starts laughing again. There’s tons of singing on it! So there you go."
And I think I agree. I mean, singing.
posted by rodlymight at 5:42 PM on February 4, 2022 [5 favorites]
"I think it’s interesting, but I don’t think it’s that great! he says, laughing. It’s pretty good, but it’s not great! I think it’s mostly interesting because it’s a product of its time, and that was a weird time for music back then. There was nothing going on. So it’s interesting on that level. But musically, I don’t know how much value it has. I mean, there’s singing on it! He starts laughing again. There’s tons of singing on it! So there you go."
And I think I agree. I mean, singing.
posted by rodlymight at 5:42 PM on February 4, 2022 [5 favorites]
it's a total mess but an interesting mess - and it does sound like them on diminishing shine
it also sounds like a 4 track recording released on cassette - and it's way, way too much work to be a fake - as messy as this is, you can tell they spent some time with it
posted by pyramid termite at 5:44 PM on February 4, 2022 [4 favorites]
it also sounds like a 4 track recording released on cassette - and it's way, way too much work to be a fake - as messy as this is, you can tell they spent some time with it
posted by pyramid termite at 5:44 PM on February 4, 2022 [4 favorites]
listening to the end of deterior 23, i can actually hear backwards leak-through from the other side of the tape - that's a convincing detail
posted by pyramid termite at 6:19 PM on February 4, 2022 [11 favorites]
posted by pyramid termite at 6:19 PM on February 4, 2022 [11 favorites]
...i can actually hear backwards leak-through from the other side of the tape - that's a convincing detail
Now, that’s a sweet detail from my distant cassette tape past that I had totally forgotten. Thanks!
posted by Thorzdad at 6:25 PM on February 4, 2022 [3 favorites]
Now, that’s a sweet detail from my distant cassette tape past that I had totally forgotten. Thanks!
posted by Thorzdad at 6:25 PM on February 4, 2022 [3 favorites]
!
posted by Going To Maine at 7:08 PM on February 4, 2022
posted by Going To Maine at 7:08 PM on February 4, 2022
no one has said whether or not it's any good.
I mean, it has it's moments. Overall its an interesting artifact of a band that was soon to gel into something extraordinary. Its certainly not a lost masterpiece or anything, but still very cool to finally hear after all the years and hype surrounding it.
posted by Hey Dean Yeager! at 7:53 PM on February 4, 2022 [2 favorites]
I mean, it has it's moments. Overall its an interesting artifact of a band that was soon to gel into something extraordinary. Its certainly not a lost masterpiece or anything, but still very cool to finally hear after all the years and hype surrounding it.
posted by Hey Dean Yeager! at 7:53 PM on February 4, 2022 [2 favorites]
That was an interesting listen. It seemed halfway between F♯ A♯ ∞ and Mike Moya’s solo project (Molasses, I think). It’s an album by a band with lots of disparate ideas, who haven’t committed to a single direction yet. I liked it, but I’m not sure I’ll ever listen to it again.
posted by Kattullus at 10:44 PM on February 4, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by Kattullus at 10:44 PM on February 4, 2022 [2 favorites]
I dunno, I like it, and I miss the decline of weird old shit from bands emerging in the face of the "streamn whatever" world view which has emerged over the time since. But so it's ever been yeah?
posted by runehog at 1:52 PM on February 5, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by runehog at 1:52 PM on February 5, 2022 [2 favorites]
> It’s an album by a band with lots of disparate ideas, who haven’t committed to a single direction yet. I liked it, but I’m not sure I’ll ever listen to it again.
Honestly, this is probably the review that makes me most likely to actually listen to it - curiosity in seeing how this nascent proto-GY!BE eventually coalesced into the GY!BE I first fell in love with.
posted by ASF Tod und Schwerkraft at 4:34 PM on February 5, 2022 [3 favorites]
Honestly, this is probably the review that makes me most likely to actually listen to it - curiosity in seeing how this nascent proto-GY!BE eventually coalesced into the GY!BE I first fell in love with.
posted by ASF Tod und Schwerkraft at 4:34 PM on February 5, 2022 [3 favorites]
It's sorta like Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween - YouTube but in a backwards way. Like when you go "oh yeah, you like band, here's some early stuff" and there's a bit of ehhhh not so sure.
posted by zengargoyle at 7:24 AM on February 7, 2022
posted by zengargoyle at 7:24 AM on February 7, 2022
Confirmed and now available on Bandcamp!
posted by chimpsonfilm at 9:56 PM on February 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by chimpsonfilm at 9:56 PM on February 13, 2022 [1 favorite]
Seems a bit “Achievement Unlocked! Now you can buy it.”
posted by Going To Maine at 10:27 PM on February 13, 2022
posted by Going To Maine at 10:27 PM on February 13, 2022
Jazz Monroe at Pitchfork: “Godspeed You! Black Emperor Officially Release Debut Tape: Listen”
In an interview for Vish Khanna’s Kreative Kontrol podcast, Menuck, who recorded the tape mostly alone before forming the band, suggested the leak was not entirely welcome. After hearing the first 10 seconds, however, he recognized its authenticity and decided to release the official version.posted by Going To Maine at 8:25 AM on February 14, 2022 [1 favorite]
One of the big private music torrent trackers (likely the defunct what.cd) had a bounty system for highly sought-after music that wasn't yet available. At the top of the list was always All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling. I almost thought the album was an urban legend until it was finally uncovered just now.
posted by msbrauer at 10:41 AM on February 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by msbrauer at 10:41 AM on February 16, 2022 [2 favorites]
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