Earlier this month, a purported leak of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s 1993 debut tape, All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling, surfaced online. In line with its longstanding policy on the record, Constellation Records declined to comment on the tape’s veracity. Now, the band’s Efrim Manuel Menuck has spoken—and released the album on streaming services (with the exception of Spotify). Check it out below.
In an interview for Vish Khanna’s Kreative Kontrol podcast, Menuck, who recorded the tape mostly alone before forming the band, suggested the leak was not entirely welcome. After hearing the first 10 seconds, however, he recognized its authenticity and decided to release the official version.
Menuck spoke about recording the tape in 1993 for friends and selling just a handful of copies at a show in the Canadian city of Moncton, saying his barely existent budget prevented further distribution. After he formed Godspeed, attracting a cult following, the prospect of releasing the tape did not appeal to him, partly because it was made during “rough times.” Despite some reluctance to complain about the ways of the internet, he admitted to feeling there was “something really fucked up about making a cassette for 12 friends, and 30 years later it ends up on YouTube.” Nonetheless, he says, he is happy for people to listen to it now—even if it is “not the Godspeed you know.” Check out the conversation in full.
Proceeds from the sales will help provide medical oxygen to the Gaza Strip via Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, according to the Bandcamp page. Although the tape is divided into 4 tracks, the tracklist subdivides it into a number of songs or passages that are listed below.
The band’s latest album G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! came out last year, along with news of a tour of Europe and North America, which is under way.
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01 drifting intro open
02 shot thru tubes
03 threethreethree
04 when all the furnaces exploded
05 beep
06 hush
07 son of a diplomat, daughter of a politician
08 glencairn 14
09 $13.13
10 loose the idiot dogs
11 diminishing shine
12 random luvly moncton blue(s)
13 dadmomdaddy
14 333 frames per second
15 revisionist alternatif wounds to the hairkut hit head
16 ditty for moya
17 buried ton
18 and the hairy guts shine
19 hoarding
20 deterior 23
21 all angels gone
22 deterior 17
23 deterior three
24 devil’s in the church
25 no job
26 dress like shit
27 perfumed pink corpses from the lips of ms. celine dion
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