Yanqui U.X.O.

Despite being an instrumental band, Montreal-based Godspeed You! Black Emperor have managed to become one of the most overtly political voices in indie rock.

Their clever and obtuse packaging has always done their work for them, but in the past, they have also relied on field recordings and spoken-word snippets to break through a drone or a cacophony and shock the listener into a realisation. U.X.O. is unexploded ordnance is landmines is cluster bombs. Yanqui is post-colonial imperialism is international police state is multinational corporate oligarchy.

Godspeed you! Black emperor is complicit is guilty is resisting. This album is just music. Recorded by Steve Albini at electrical audio in chicago. Mixed by Howard Bilerman and godspeed you! Black emperor at the hotel2tango in Montrèal.