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Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything

Review by Benjamin Bland

The culmination of a discography that has always been leading to this as its high point.»

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Formed by Godspeed You! Black Emperor member Efrim Menuck 15 years ago, Thee Silver Mt Zion have carved a singular path in the aftermath of the heavy, instrumental musics that was their surroundings at their inception. 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 roadtested 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.
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