Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
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| Studio album by Godspeed You! Black Emperor | ||||
| Released | 31 March 2015 | |||
| Studio | Fidelitorium, Hotel2Tango, The Pines | |||
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| Length | 40:23 | |||
| Label | Constellation | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 84/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| The A.V. Club | A- |
| Drowned in Sound |   |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 |
| The Guardian | |
| Paste | 9.3/10 |
| Pitchfork | 7.6/10 |
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| Sputnikmusic | |
Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (stylized as 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress') is the fifth studio album by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released on 31 March 2015. The album was recorded with Electrical Audio engineer Greg Norman in studios in North Carolina and Montreal. The album is the first to feature completely new material since the band re-formed in 2010. It is also, with the exception of the vinyl version of F♯ A♯ ∞, the group's shortest full-length LP to date, timing in at just forty minutes.
The album was announced on 24 February 2015; the group also shared an excerpt of "Peasantry or 'Light! Inside of Light!'" on SoundCloud. On 24 March 2015, Constellation Records streamed the album on their SoundCloud.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 84, indicating "universal acclaim".
Pitchfork rated the album 7.6 out of a possible 10 and Mark Richardson described the album as a "different kind of transaction" and that while listening to the album "You have to let your guard down" as that Godspeed "transforms feelings into compelling records. They're still on track.". Writing for Exclaim!, Nilan Perera called the record "a beautiful, concise blast that conveys this band's musical essence."
The album's four tracks are based on "Behemoth", played live numerous times since 2012 and previously recorded onstage for the concert series We Have Signal.
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