Today’s episode is with Efrim Manuel 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
Comments on Come Worry With Us
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
