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Song of the Silent Land
Constellation
·A decade in orbit.
If Constellation Records were given one credit in music, it would be the way in which the Montreal label quietly unveiled the likes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor on the record-buying public and in some small way changed the face of popular music in the process. Before then, the Constellation specialty (epic, palatial, moody as fuck) was reserved for left-field classical labels and that annoying goth composer asshole sitting behind you in driver's ed. class. Now, somehow, GY!BE and the rest of the Constellation satellites play rock festivals worldwide and somehow fit perfectly.
Of the new kids, Polmo Polpo is already set to break more hearts than even Smog's Bill Callahan in his prime (once PP actually gets around to recording those honeyed vocals of his, rather than the beautiful instrumental we get on Song of the Silent Land). Otherwise, the batch of previously unreleased tracks and remixes (including Do Make Say Think's brilliantly recast remix of their entire last album into all of five minutes) stands to show how brilliant and unique the vision and dedication behind Constellation Records really is.
And really, how many compilations out there are a must-have? Here, at last, is one of them.
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