Today's episode is with Efrim Manuel Manuck from Godspeed! You Black Emperor / Silver Mount Zion. Efrim and his comrades have been making radical, innovative and genre defying music for over 2 decades, fusing post-rock, punk ethos and classical aesthetics. Efrim’s new album Pissing Stars is out now on Constellation records.
In this interview we discuss:
- His new album Pissing Stars
- His relationship with anarchism and radical politics
- Thoughts on having a kid in these times
- What it means to maintain a career in music with a semblance of integrity
- How people in North America are lost people adrift on a stolen continent
- The trauma of the Bush years
- The influence of religious imagery and poetry in his work
- A story about their run in with the FBI and some fucked up cop in Oklahoma