The Pop Corporation

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – everyone’s noisiest gig they’ve been too – are back with a new album soon, and it has a typically awkward ame for the time being, which is comforting. We don’t want GY!BE being all cuddly, do we? Not one bit.

This new album is titled “NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD”, and all joking aside, refers to the number of Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7, 2023, as of February 13, 2024.

The album is available to pre-order via Bandcamp (below) and you’ll get to hear it on October 4th. There’s a tour afoot too – go check their socials for the dates.

The band say:

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.
GY!BE