Name: Godspeed
Brand: Glasvegas

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

GOWOW60

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Colour

green

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Printed Inner.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-02-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5060345630206

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

GOWOW58

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Extended format: No

2021-08-13

5060345630183

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

GOWOW56

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black

5060345630169

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Glasvegas

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Go Wow

Glasvegas return with their triumphant fourth album <i>Godspeed</i>, – the music we all need right now. The latest single Shake The Cage (für Theo) sums up the dazzlingly eclectic sound of Godspeed perfectly – this is an electronic barrage with devastatingly powerful spoken word lyrics which call to mind I’m Gonna Get Stabbed from the band’s astonishing debut. 

The single is perfectly positioned at the end credits of Alan McGee’ new movie ‘Creation Stories’, written by Irvine Welsh and executively produced by Danny Boyle. Hand picked as the only current track to grace the music mogul’s biopic, it is a kind of dystopian, free-associative ‘Choose life’ sermon (’Stand on a wave / calculate quantum mechanics / Surf, dance / Believe in chance”) set to the escalating dread and claustrophobia of a John Carpenter murder-chase. 

Launched on their own label Go Wow Records, <i>Godspeed</i> takes place, “all on the same night, just as the sun’s going down,” The album presents a fragmented portrait of a single evening’s events, one James half-jokingly compares to‘American Graffiti’, director George Lucas’ 1973 coming-of-age classic, “where everything happens in one night, and nothing major goes down plot-wise, but you still love the characters and the world.” Each song in its own right as diverse as the next, pulling James Allan into each world with free reign to experiment in this latest masterpiece. 

Godspeed

Music GB