{"product_id":"no-more-apocalypse-father-cd","title":"No More Apocalypse Father (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eWE ARE WINTER'S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN (WAWBARC) is the new quartet of Mat Ball\r\n(BIG BRAVE), Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion),\r\nand Jonathan Downs and Patch (both Ada). On \"NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER\" they present\r\nsix modal lullabies drenched in seared distortion, slathered across striding electronic pulses.\r\nBall and Menuck began creating music in and for the bleakest moments of Montréal winters:\r\n\"We're honoring that idea of winter, when you come inside and your house is warm, a place\r\nthat only exists because of how cold it is outside,\" says Menuck. They later recruited Downs\r\nand Patch to flesh out their initial ideas. Menuck met them in 2015 when recording Ada's\r\nfinal album at Montréal's Hotel2Tango - where they reconvened to make this record.\r\n\"NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER\" is an album about witnessing bleakness from a place of\r\nsafety. Carrying newfound descriptive depth, thanks to the quartet's open-ended songs\r\nfreeing him from writing in meter, Menuck likens his lyrics to photorealism. On opener 'Rats\r\nand Roses' he sings of an unnamed city struck by an unknown cataclysm, but the details are\r\nlocal: specifically, his neighbors inadvertently poisoning birds when tackling a rat infestation.\r\nIt's backed by blown out synths and guitars reaching a soaring crescendo. \"Seeing things\r\nfrom a distance and not being able to intervene happens a lot on the record,\" Menuck\r\nexplains. \"If you're a feeling and thinking person, that's just part of the human condition.\r\nWe watch horror unfolding from afar, unable to do anything concrete to change it.\"\r\nA powerless witness, able to describe but not intervene. 'Dangling Blanket From A Balcony\r\n(White Phosphorous)' references Michael Jackson holding his child over a hotel balcony in\r\n2002-the bizarre media spectacle still lodged in Menuck's psyche. This and the album's\r\nclosing track also elegize white phosphorous, a technology of war designed to light up\r\nbattlefields but capable of inflicting horrific burns on those it touches. Illumination and horror\r\nin one, here underpinning scenes picturesque and terrifying. \"The last song '(Goodnight)\r\nWhite Phosphorous' is deliberately like a lullaby,\" says Menuck. \"Written from the viewpoint\r\nof watching white phosphorous falling outside your window.\"\r\nScorched and tarnished and laden with harrowing imagery, \"NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER\"\r\nis also a record bathed in light: the bewilderment of hopeful spirits witnessing despair,\r\nwatching a blizzard of distress unfold outside from a place of relative shelter and comfort.\r\nYou could call that emotional ambivalence, maybe numbness. But those words are too passive\r\nfor the weight of conflicted feeling resonating through the album.\r\n\"I never know how I feel on an overcast day when the sun is still bright despite the grayness\r\nand the light is very flat. The colours become more saturated, and you see a single flower,\r\nsay a morning glory, whose colour is so vibrant beneath the gray, I don't know if that's a lovely\r\nsensation or a terrible sensation. It's both,\" says Menuck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRats And Roses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Tremble Pour Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e No More Apocalypse Father\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Uncloudy Days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dangling Blanket From A Balcony (White Phosphorous)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e (Goodnight) White Phosphorous\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50400626966802,"sku":"666561018023","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/4359324-3205839.jpg?v=1729116106","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-more-apocalypse-father-cd","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}