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From Amazon.co.uk:
There is much to explore in Silver Mt Zion's Born lnto Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upwards. The first movement ('Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats of Fire are Falling from the Sky!') is a lush, richly scored orchestral piece, with found sound loops and complex instrumentation all contributing to a truly uplifting, climatic dirge. The second movement is much slower, with more traditional rock elements--feedback, silence and discordant guitars--creeping in among the neo-classical instruments. lt's the album's centrepiece track 'Take These Hands and Throw Them in the River' which really astonishes, however-imperilled ricocheting vocals, violins wailing like The Dirty Three, suffocating atmosphere like Mogwai, lyrical paranoia, a pulsating beat, all building up to a tumultuous climax. After the storm comes the lull, with birds twittering and cooing, but the pace soon builds up again culminating in another climax of distortion and noise, a pop melody and a final arpeggio guitar. The message at the end is 'Musicians are cowards'. --Everett True









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Note: - a haunting, brilliant testament
the godspeed gang is quickly becoming the most successfully experimental group of musicians on this planet. this is a brilliant work of art. everyone who has heard the first album will do a triple take after hearing this one. fans have become so accustomed to the "drone-rock" thing that they will be surprised to find an actual variety of music in their lap when they purchase this record. it's a bit different, or perhaps more mature, then the normal GYBE! standard. Don't get me wrong though, there is absolutely nothing commercial about this album. this album has a lot of spirit. I highly suggest that you pay attention to all the artwork/liner notes/etc. because all the political poetry is definitely at it's most meaningful state. take it seriously, remind yourself that this album was recorded just months before the 9/11 attacks. this album does for music what scorsese's "the last temptation of christ" does for film.

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Note: - Truely Beautiful
Buy this right now, climb up on your roof at night, and listen to this album. You will crumble.

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Note: - * Godspeed you sensative anarchists! ...
I'm totally seduced by the musical dynamics and quiet rage of this album. "Born Into Trouble..." differs from their first album in so far as it expands the "Silver" sound. Shimmering reverb, delicate loops, and echoing beats deepen the tiny orchestra soundscape. I know a lot of Godspeed You Black Emperor! fans who are turned off by Silver Mt. Zion's use of vocals, but I'm totally entralled by the mix of populist religiousity and radical politics in their lyrics. In the Silver Mt. Zion world angels guard Black Bloc anarchists and empty streets and industrical wastelands are the foundations of a separatist church. On the first album they "kill first the bankers" while "the wind calls out my grandfather's name". On this album there is more desparation. The liner insert is a meditation on "The Failure of One Small Community in Achieving its own Ill-Defined Dreams And/Or Goals." There is strength in Godspeed's wordless soft/loud anthems. Here there is vulnerability, fear, and faith in secret beauty and tiny resistance. I hope I haven't foreclosed on my membership in Godspeed's tiny army by writing this review. Maybe my faith in multiaxial resistance is naive.
For those uninterested in the Godspeed/Fly Pan Am/Silver Mt. project I'll summarize with comparisons: this is Mogwai and Gorecki with a crypto-revolutionary consciousness.

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Note: - beautiful and haunting
one of the only records that can nearly reduce me to tears..sadness and longing resonate through out the entire recording.."and the resistance grew from tender places, and we fought the good fight whenever it staggered down our lonesome, twisted roads...."