Godspeed You! Black Emperor reveal new album G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!

Godspeed You! Black Emperor has announced their first new album in four years. Titled G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!, the album was recorded and mixed by Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes, and is out on April 2 via Constellation Records.

The album will be available in a deluxe vinyl edition including a 180-gram LP and 10″, as well as on CD, and digital.

To coincide with the album’s announcement today, the band released a statement on the new record and the world at large, including a call to abolish the police and disband the prison complex.

Read the band’s statement below, followed by the G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! tracklist and album art. Pre-orders for Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! are up now via the Constellation site.

we wrote it on the road mostly. when that was still a place.
and then recorded it in masks later, distanced at the beginning of the second wave.
it was autumn, and the falling sun was impossibly fat and orange.
we tried to summon a brighter reckoning there,
bent beneath varied states of discomfort, worry and wonderment.

we fired up the shortwave radios again, for the first time in a long time.
and found that many things had changed.
the apocalypse pastors were still there, but yelling END TIMES NOW where they once yelled “end times soon”.
and the transmission-detritus of automated militaries takes up more bandwidth now,
so that a lot of frequencies are just pulses of rising white static,
digital codexes announcing the status of various watching and killing machines.
and the ham-radio dads talk to each other all night long.
about their dying wives and what they ate for lunch and what they’ll do with their guns when antifa comes.

this record is about all of us waiting for the end.
all current forms of governance are failed.
this record is about all of us waiting for the beginning,
and is informed by the following demands=
empty the prisons
take power from the police and give it to the neighbourhoods that they terrorise.
end the forever wars and all other forms of imperialism.
tax the rich until they’re impoverished.

much love to all the other lost and lovely ones,
these are death-times and our side has to win.
we’ll see you on the road once the numbers fall.