Is there anyone into this great band from Montreal?
This music is harrowing, mordant, violent, indulgent, delicate, and unspeakably beautiful. As the pieces build from delicate sound poetry to frenzied eruptions, martial percussion rhythms emerge, underpinning the rest of the instrumental mix. It all adds up to varying degrees of incredibly nuanced, repetitious hum, the sound of an alien life force, its heartbeat and breathing, expressed through music. And also the snippets of narrative plucked from sources ranging from a street corner prophet's cynical rantings to clips from corporate recorded messages. It is not post-rock nor progressive rock nor just psychedelic or symphonic music. This is the Great Music, about the decay of a bloated capitalist culture, a world's spiritual crisis, a planet in precipitous decline...