Silver Mt. Zion – This Is Our Punk Rock – VINYL 2LP

“Enter Silver Mt. Zion, who, guest players and fancy accoutrements aside, are essentially a Montreal-based sextet fronted by Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s brooding brainchild, Efrim Menuck. Both of Efrim’s gigs boast spacious, classical-meets-post-rock sounds (not to mention a proclivity for fiendishly irrelevant identity crises), but there are no shifting exclamation points here– this one’s gimmick is the bandname that expands with each release. Debuting as the relatively modest A Silver Mt. Zion, 2001’s Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward had them billed as the more epic-sounding The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. And this time out they’ve been generous enough to grace us “With Choir,” too. The contrivances, of course, goes a little deeper than that, and while This is Our Punk Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing may not be quite as concept-heavy as something like Ziggy Stardust, it nonetheless comes with a pointed, non-musical agenda.(…)” – pitchfork.com

Tracklist :

A1 Sow Some Lonesome Corner So Many Flowers Bloom – 16:27
B1 Babylon Was Built On Fire / Starsnostars. – 14:44
C1 American Motor Over Smoldered Field… -12:05
D1 Goodbye Desolate Railyard. – 14:25