GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR - F♯ A♯ ∞ LP Emo Hammer the nails & thrash

Hammer the nails & thrash 'til fucking death

produced by friend and fellow musician PAUL SIMON in England and released on Columbia Records in 1965

The record is the sound of the band finding itself

Opener “Hold the Dark” emerges amid delicate melody before “Eternal Return” drenches us with a downpour of shoe-gaze emotion

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GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR - F♯ A♯ ∞ LP Emo Hammer the nails & thrashIt's hard to imagine this disc coming out of Montreal or, really, any urban habitat. The post rock instrumentals on f#a#(infinity symbol), distantly related to the sounds made by the Australian band Dirty Three, serve as walking music for a loner hoping to hitch a ride in the middle of the Arizona desert and dealing with the inevitability of another night in coyote territory. Godspeed's swelling array of guitars, bagpipes, cellos, violins, trumpets,