LIFT YOUR SKINNY FISTS LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN

At first would you please let me say this creation should be kinda textbook of Post Rock? 'Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven' was released in 2000 as GY!BE's second studio-based full-length (quite longer) album, that is even currently (about 20 years or more later) considered as one of Post Rock masterpieces. Featuring four over 20 minute tracks upon four sides of lps, the album goes forward without letting you feel long nor redundant, exactly like a time machine or an empty dream. Basically there are a bunch of repetitive distorted melody phrases but they have plenty of sound-oriented appearances and directly make an appeal to human nature from the beginning until the end.

The first GY!BE song for me was 'Sleep' where are many repetitive, downtempo, dreamy and hypnotic paragraphs ... fuzzy shoegaze guitar play is pretty impressive and depressive. The more you go ahead, the stronger and louder their sound launch is (sounds like they might give expression of REM sleep in the middle distortion), and suddenly and eventually you again fall into deep sleep in the beginning of the latter part. Sleeping at one night can be supremely appeared by their instrumental technique and well-created melody lines.

'Static' is another gem quite epic and fragile but magnificently tense, pressing, and dominant. Wondering why they can shoot such an innovative lesion here and there. Each line should be slightly different, diverse from others, even if repeated in a similar manner. The last 'Antennas To Heaven' can be thought as sorta endless heavenly chorus by all of their instruments flooded with bankruptcy ... like the last piano touch of 'A Day In The Life', the last loooong breath should be worth listening without breathing (lol).

Anyway their real masterpiece is the starter 'Storm' you can understand methinks. In the beginning a signal gun by the horn section and a long, destructed violin bow ... both are fantastic and fanatic. The former part sounds like a quietness just before a storm. However, the stronger a wind gets, the more nervous and painful people around there should be ... their powerful sound appearance is well realized above mentioned. The storm and their stormy play break in piece and absorb entirely. And at last nothing except vacancy is left around us. This track can tell you in detail, and their soundscape can be expressed quite vividly and visually.

Again mentioned, you cannot be bored nor tired via this long, thick creation but get filled with authentic post rock world definitely.