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This Godspeed You Black Emperor! side project featuring Efrim shows a more focused version of the music for which Godspeed…

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This Godspeed You Black Emperor! side project featuring Efrim shows a more focused version of the music for which Godspeed has become synonymous. Here you will find a much more distinct utilization of leitmotifs, the ever-present brooding, percussive strings, and, happily, vocals(!). I passed this by when it first came out: don’t make the same mistake.

—Published June 6, 2001