As a core member of both Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion, legendary Montréal-based musician Efrim Manuel Menuck has much-deserved cult status among fans of political punk, post-rock and avant-noise songcraft alike. Menuck celebrates 25 years of unflinching and uncompromising sonic output with Pissing Stars, wherein he launches acerbic darts, impassioned salvos and fragile flowers into gusts of noise-battered song built around pulsing maximalist electronics and drone, composed on modular synthesizer and guitar, shot through with alternately plaintive, chilling, often processed vocals. His last album, Pissing Stars, is Menuck at his most vulnerable and his most adventurous – with a timely narrative framework that only he could conjure:
Efrim Manuel Menuck
