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#8: 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!' by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

...Immense and intense, though I've already banged on about this one enough elsewhere. I like the idea, from a review on the blog Tiny Mix Tapes, that it might just be about "delivering the emotional peaks and crescendos of the classical orchestra circa high-romanticism, with the economy of a touring punk band."