Godspeed You! Black Emperor Tease LP With ‘Grey Rubble

Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release a new album, No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead, on Oct. 4 via Constellation Records. The LP’s title references the number of Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli strikes between Oct. 7, 2023 and Feb. 13, 2024.

The rock band previewed the LP with a seven-minute instrumental single, “Grey Rubble – Green Shoots,” which is the album’s closing track.

The album’s description notes, “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.”

The album is available for pre-order via Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Bandcamp page now. The band recently announced their Liberation Autumn of ’24 tour, which kicks off Sept. 27 in Dublin. The group will perform in the U.K. and Europe before heading to North America in November.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s last album, G_d’s Pee at State’s End!, arrived in 2021. The LP marked the Montreal post-rock collective’s first album since 2017’s Luciferian Towers.