Great Place to Start
If you are new to GYBE, this EP is a great place to start. Moya is superb. Get it. Get it. Get it.
If you are new to GYBE, this EP is a great place to start. Moya is superb. Get it. Get it. Get it.
Moya is probably my favorite Godspeed song, a perfect microcosm of the band's overall sonic palette and tendencies toward the dramatic and climactic. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III is more of an angry version of Alan's Psychadelic Breakfast, a more quiet piece with the ramblings of a disillusioned man interjected in between. Classic Godspeed. This EP is better than most other post rock pretenders' albums (see Explosions in the Sky)
I bought this EP years ago and copied it straight to tape. It was on the end of a Trans Am album and for years I thought that Moya was by them. I'd forgotten I'd put this on the end. It sounds nothing like Trans Am and confused me for ages... Ah the joys of cassette tapes and clunky click walkmans. Moya is the sound of the aftermath of a nuclear blast. It's incredibly melancholy, the strings build up to a climax that invokes images of hollowed out houses covered in grey dust and school desks and books left deserted. It might sound like it's frightening, it is, but I can't get enough of this song.... Best listened to on trains.
xx_Freak_xx you're an idiot. "Ah, yes, I'm a jackass." Go run your truck into the biggest oil derrick you see full speed and we'll see if the amount of applause received from onlookers when retards off themselves as a favor to society is also bigger in Texas.
Moya is such an amazing song ... the crescendo ... growing and exploring textures and nuances to the point where you look down at the timer and realize that you've only gotten to the theme and you're already 5m40s into the "song". By 10m15s you find yourself unwound, unhinged and completely enthralled. Indeed a denouement worth waiting for - then Blaise Bailey Finnegan III and all it's lunacy starts up!
This is hands-down my favorite album of all time. No questions. Dramatic, emotionally charged, instrumentally driven, purposeful and symbolic. You need to listen to this aural ecstasy. The fact that it only counts as two downloads makes it utterly silly to not have in any collection.
2 great tracks. Were it longer, I might say it is the best of the three available GYBE albums.
... It would be this one. This was their second effort, and also their shortest (it's technically an EP). There are only two songs, both under twenty minutes long. The first, Moya, is basically an extended climax-drone that is my very favorite GY!BE track. The second track is almost as good, and whatever the music lacks (which isn't much) is made up for by the fantastic recording they included a man at an open mike, ranting about the decay of America, then reciting an obscure poem written by Blaize Bailey of Iron Maiden. And such. This is a brilliantly inventive record, and is the perfect expression of GY!BE's sound. The drones are engaging, and the climaxes simply stunning. This album is essential, and if I could give it 4.5 stars, I would.
Two absolutely excellent songs! It may only be an EP, but it is certainly worth getting.
This was my introduciton to Godspeed. This is a good starting point because I find it to be easily accesible compared to some of their more challenging work. Moya packs into 10 min the destruction of earth and BBFII the decline of humanity (this includes a real field recording from a street prophet in NYC). Like most of their stuff its intense, sad, disturbing, intimate, cleansing and incredibly brilliant. This group is on a completly different level of composition, its more than music. cheers to Godfather and HaleakalAri for the translations.