Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada
| Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada | ||||
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| EP by Godspeed You! Black Emperor | ||||
| Released | 8 March 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||
| Studio | The Gas Station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||
| Genre | Post-rock, experimental | |||
| Length | 28:36 | |||
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Constellation CST006 Kranky KRANK034 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Sputnikmusic | 5/5 |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 9/10 |
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada, also stylized as Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada, is the first EP released by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It was released on the Montreal-based record label Constellation Records in 1999, and was re-released by Kranky. Users of the website Rate Your Music rate it as the greatest EP of all time.
The album packaging makes only sparing reference to either the band or the album title: the outer packaging does not make any reference to Godspeed, but mentions them in the liner notes; the album title is only shown on the spine of the album cover. The song titles are not listed anywhere on the cover.
The cardboard album case is unusual in that it opens in the opposite direction of a conventional CD case; this is due to the Hebrew text being read from right to left.
The front of the album contains Hebrew characters, in transliterated form, "Tohu va bohu" (formless and empty). This phrase is used in both Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, the former to describe the Earth before God separated light from dark and the latter to describe the Earth after the Lord's Day. The dots and dashes above the letters are called trope. They dictate the tune and intonation and are found in the Torah as well as the rest of the Hebrew Bible. On the inside cover, this text is put into greater context, with Jer 4:23–27 provided in both Hebrew and English (seemingly the Jewish Publication Society version):
The back of the EP contains a diagram with instructions in Italian on how to make a molotov cocktail.
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