CaptainHerbalLife Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Yup. http://cstrecords.com/new-release-thee-silver-mt-zion-memorial-orchestra-fuck-off-get-free-we-pour-light-on-everything/ Here’s the first of our new releases for January 2014: Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything, the first new full-length from Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra since 2010’s Kollapse Tradixionales. It’ll be available in stores as of January 21. See below for info, including an excerpt from album track “Austerity Blues” and a video made by the band for the occasion, or go to our release page for the full run-down. The band will be hitting the road for a good chunk of the late winter and early spring, with several weeks of shows in Europe and North America. See below for the first batch of dates (check back soon as we firm up the full picture). Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (SMZ) has traced a barbed-wire arc of genre-defying protest music since its inception in 1999. Formed by Efrim Menuck, with Thierry Amar and Sophie Trudeau, the initial iteration of the band was a predominantly instrumental trio that forged a more intimate and ragged chamber-punk than Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the other group in which all three founding SMZ members also played (and continue to play). Through seven albums from 2000-2010, SMZ expanded its line-up and shifted towards an increasing use of lead and group vocals, with Menuck penning politically-charged lyrics to anchor long-form multi-movement compositions that juxtaposed electrified guitars against a 4-piece string section of violins, cello and contrabass. Most recently, SMZ has pared back to five players, with Menuck’s massive spectrum-spanning electric guitar sound emerging as the spine around which two violins, bass (now more often electric than acoustic) and drums are deployed. SMZ have managed a handful of short tours in the past couple of years (in the gaps between GYBE commitments) and as anyone who has seen the band in its recent incarnation can attest, their current sound is more honed, laser-guided and bone-rattling than ever, melding hardcore, blues, garage and dark metal influences that have nothing to do with anything so quaint as “post-rock” (a tag the group has always and rightly rejected). Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything is the first definitive document of the band’s newfound sound and style as a quintet. It’s also their first single LP-length work since the band’s debut record as a trio almost 15 years ago, and features road-tested pummeling rock-outs “Fuck Off Get Free (For The Island Of Montréal)”, “Take Away These Early Grave Blues” and “What We Loved Was Not Enough” alongside the previously unheard lullabyes/minuets “Little Ones Run” and “Rains Thru The Roof At Thee Grande Ballroom (For Capital Steeze)” and the album centerpiece “Austerity Blues” with its closing lyric “Lord let my son live long enough to see that mountain torn down” sung in varying incarnations throughout the second half of this 14-minute epic. This lyric in many ways encapsulates Menuck’s unflinching take on a world replete with shabbiness, greed and injustice, seen through the lens of parenthood, mortality, endurance and defiance. There are few other musicians who deliver social critique with the courage and honesty of lines like “All our cities gonna burn / All our bridges gonna snap / All our pennies gonna rot / Lightning roll across our tracks / All our children gonna die”. Feel-good music this is not; but neither can it reductively be tagged apocalyptic or world-weary. Fuck Off Get Free rages with scorn and with hope, utterly passionate but pointedly unromantic. Thee Silver Mt. Zion once again demonstrates, like few other bands working today, that there is much to fight for and against, and plenty more fight songs to sing. Thanks for listening. FUCK OFF GET FREE (FOR THE ISLAND OF MONTREAL) AUSTERITY BLUES TAKE AWAY THESE EARLY GRAVE BLUES LITTLE ONES RUN WHAT WE LOVED WAS NOT ENOUGH RAINS THRU THE ROOF AT THEE GRANDE BALLROOM (FOR CAPITAL STEEZ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museummouth Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Ah yes! This is awesome news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitmuzik Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 This is great that they have a tribute to Capital Steez, hahaha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Just came here to post this, I'm damn excited! Between this and Mogwai, January is going to be a good month for post-rock albums. This release also gives me a good excuse to pick up some Constellation releases that I'm missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 What a pleasant morning surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasma36 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 If it's anything like the "rock" songs on Kollaps, I'll be liking this album a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greystash Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Oh yes and they're playing in Frankfurt! Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 What a pleasant morning surprise. Indeed. So excited! I was thinking last night how this needs to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abovetheearth Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 massive news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_eppenbro Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Funds are tight, but I'll be all over this next pay day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drds89 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 This should be interesting...a guaranteed winner when the album title contains F ...January is going to be a good month for post-rock albums... ii I don't know why, but i just get all giddy inside and sometimes LOL when reading about bands labeled as "post rock," who get all exercised and accost the term, or make like it's being pariah of the worst magnitude. But they'd probably be cool with being labeled "copro-lite" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I don't know why, but i just get all giddy inside and sometimes LOL when reading about bands labeled as "post rock," who get all exercised and accost the term, or make like it's being pariah of the worst magnitude. But they'd probably be cool with being labeled "copro-lite" I think that's pretty funny, too, actually. Obviously "post-rock" has become such an umbrella-genre; the catch-all for anything that's instrumental and longer than your typical chart topper. I use it pretty loosely, and I never assume that I know what sound someone is trying to describe when they throw that term down. But the artists who get bent out of shape over that label are hilarious. Mogwai - arguably one of the defining bands for the genre - still insist that they're anything but it. They constantly refer to their music, explicitly, as not "post-rock". But when you've been a band since the 90s, and 95% of your fanbase has given (and continues to give) you a label... at that point, why bother fighting it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Well this is a nice surprise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davepriz Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I'm pretty fucking stoked for this. hoping it is a 12 inch and not 10. just for ocd purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I read that it clocks in at around 49 minutes. I think a 12" is in order, for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I think that's pretty funny, too, actually. Obviously "post-rock" has become such an umbrella-genre; the catch-all for anything that's instrumental and longer than your typical chart topper. I use it pretty loosely, and I never assume that I know what sound someone is trying to describe when they throw that term down. But the artists who get bent out of shape over that label are hilarious. Mogwai - arguably one of the defining bands for the genre - still insist that they're anything but it. They constantly refer to their music, explicitly, as not "post-rock". But when you've been a band since the 90s, and 95% of your fanbase has given (and continues to give) you a label... at that point, why bother fighting it? Mogwai are one of the bands that I don't understand getting called post rock at all. I agree with them that they are a just a (mostly) instrumental "rock" band. I'm a huge fan of Godspeed and such but Mogwai fit nowhere in that group imo. The whole term confuses me, as I have probably expressed before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I use post-rock really loosely, mainly out of laziness. It's about as big of an umbrella term is metal is, covers a lot. I do find it amusing that some bands are so adamant about not being classified as genre X, but I can imagine having your work so easily categorized could be frustrating. But, it's human nature to try and classify everything (hence some of the more obnoxious sub-genres we have these days). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davepriz Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 the simplest definition of post rock is simply a band that uses typically considered rock instruments to create music other than typical rock. it does not mean caspian or explosions in the sky loud/soft atmospheric blah blah blah. so by that definition it makes sense to categorize these bands into post rock. but who cares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHerbalLife Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 The roof is leaking PS: (Not a Phil Collins reference) Derek™ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 The roof is leaking PS: (Not a Phil Collins reference) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 So are we not going to discuss this album and how awesome it is? (Or have you guys not sunk your teeth into it yet?) After just a handful of listens, I think it's up there with He Has Left Us Alone... as my favorite ASMZ release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youinreverse Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I keep forgetting to download this. I'll get on it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Mine should get here on Tuesday, I'm diving in as soon as it arrives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptothedo Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I'm on the first song and it's amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eight1echo Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I never took the time to get into these guys despite liking Godspeed. Would this new record be a good starting point or should I go back first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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