Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
A double album of four long pieces, recorded in nine days in Toronto.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 2000
- Released
- 9 October 2000 (LP); 23 October 2000 (CD)
- Recorded
- February 2000
- Studio
- Chemical Sound, Toronto
- Label
- Constellation (LP); Kranky (CD)
- Producer
- Daryl Smith
- Length
- 87:21
Recorded over nine days in February 2000 at Chemical Sound in Toronto, with most of the material worked out in live performance. William Schaff drew the cover. It reached 66 on the UK chart and 5 on the UK independent chart. Pitchfork gave it 9.0 and placed it 65th among the albums of the 2000s, and the Guardian heard passages of spellbinding beauty.
Track listing
- Storm22:32
- Static22:35
- Sleep23:17
- Like Antennas to Heaven...18:57
Personnel
- Sophie Trudeau violin
- Norsola Johnson cello
- David Bryant guitar
- Thierry Amar bass
- Mauro Pezzente bass
- Aidan Girt drums
- Bruce Cawdron drums
- Roger Tellier-Craig guitar
- Efrim Menuck guitar
- Daryl Smith producer, recording
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Sources
- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, Wikipedia
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Constellation