Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
2015 album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress is the fifth studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released on 31 March 2015 by Constellation Records. The album was recorded with Electrical Audio engineer Greg Norman in North Carolina and Montreal,[1][12] and was the first to feature completely new material since the band's reformation in 2010.[13] It is also, with the exception of the vinyl version of F♯ A♯ ∞ (ignoring the locked groove), the group's shortest album to date, timing in at just forty minutes.
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Released | 31 March 2015 (2015-03-31) | |||
Recorded | 2013–14 | |||
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Length | 40:23[1] | |||
Label | Constellation | |||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 84/100[2] |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The A.V. Club | A−[4] |
Drowned in Sound | [5] |
Exclaim! | 8/10[6] |
The Guardian | [7] |
Paste | 9.3/10[8] |
Pitchfork | 7.6/10[9] |
Spin | [10] |
Sputnikmusic | [11] |
The album was announced on 24 February 2015; the group also shared an excerpt of "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'" on SoundCloud.[14] On 24 March 2015, Constellation streamed the album on their SoundCloud.