Blogger's not letting me post the album cover...just imagine two bombs falling from a plane in mid-dissent. Anyway....
I admittedly downloaded this because, as AST, I consider myself a completist, and I wanted to say tat I have the complete GYBE discography.
So...I've got it.
And what I got from this album was, i my opinion, their least inspired work to date.
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is damn near perfect. I remember it was a little over a year a go when I heard it for the first time. I was playing Playstation 2 while blasting the music from my bedroom. Roughly an hour and a half later, I turned the console off and asked myself, "Did I just listen to the best album ever?" I was absolutely floored.
Every album of theirs is good, but just not LYSFLATH-caliber good. And of all the GYBE to download, I'd have to put this one at the bottom of the list. It almost felt showy, and less sincere than their previous offerings. THis is pretty surprising considering Steve Albini was behind the controls for this one. I always think f him as a real no-nonsense kind of producer, but oh well.
In conclusion, If you haven't heard Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, you're doing yourself a complete disservice. Get your ears on that shit post haste. But Yanqui is totally skippable, and is the lone blemish in my April downloads. Luckily GYBE's songs are ridiculously long and this didn't take up a bunch of DLs.
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