GY!BE mark 30 years since formation with a monumental new LP, as they know best - expansive instrumental post-rock with a torn heart and resonant pathos.
Typically taking their cues from a syncretic blend of kosmiche krautrock, drone and avant rock, and also taking Hebrew klezmer folk as their rock touchstone as much the blues, the 9 piece band move as one in sweeping formations from the bleeding heart electric guitar solo and tense drone bed of ‘Sun Is a Hole Sun Is Vapors’ to a hopeful, in title and tone, quiet-loud-quiet climax and resolution of ‘Grey Rubble - Green Shoots’. Song titles poetically imply their inspiration while the music does the talking on the album’s meat, dialing it right down to wasted scapes that give wings to the strings in ‘Babies In a Thundercloud’ and driven by motorik thrum thru the peaks and exhaustive collapses of ‘Raindrops Cast In Lead’, with a brief, sorrowful lament ‘Broken Spires At Dead Kapital’ paving the way to album highlight ‘Pale Spectator Takes Photographs’ - significant for its clenched consolidation of the elements and heartrending turn of phrase led by Sophie Trudeau’s soaring violin into skin-prickling klezmer melody.
