• Godspeed You! Black Emperor "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" 2LP
Constellation Records
Black Vinyl
2x180gLP pressed at Optimal (DE) in 350gsm gatefold jacket + 300gsm inners printed LE-UV on uncoated Alaska artboards + DL card.
So, it's official then: GY!BE's first album in 3 years goes by the name of "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" and will arrive on 4 October via Constellation Records. Two things are immediately obvious about that title: first, that it's referencing the bone-chilling bombardment ravaging the Gaza Strip, and secondly, that the 'official' number of murdered Palestinians is now much closer to double that figure – and, unofficially, likely many multiples higher.
THE PLAIN TRUTH= we drifted through it, arguing. every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom. we sat down together and wrote it in one room, and then sat down in a different room, recording. NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody? and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile. the sun setting above beds of ash while we sat together, arguing. the old world order barely pretended to care. this new century will be crueler still. war is coming. don’t give up. pick a side. hang on. love.