This Canadian music collective distinguishes itself emphatically in the swirl of popular music. They don’t write songs as much as soundscapes, making use of extended orchestral arrangements, spoken word, and novel production techniques, as if writing scores for films yet to be imagined. Here are my favorite songs from the Montreal-based hive mind.

*This list will be updated in the event of any future (including posthumous) releases.

Honorable mentions

Anthem for No State

East Hastings

Fam/Famine

Piss Crowns Are Trebled

09-15-00

Top 10

10. Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls

9. Providence

8. motherfucker=redeemer

7. BBF3

6. The Dead Flag Blues

5. We Drift Like Worried Fire

4. Antennas to Heaven…

3. Storm

2. Static

1. Sleep

Favorite Album Cover

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

Favorite Song on Each Album

F# A# ∞ (1997): The Dead Flag Blues

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000): Sleep

Yanqui U.X.O. (2002): motherfucker=redeemer

’Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (2012): We Drift Like Worried Fire

Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015): Piss Crowns Are Trebled

Luciferian Towers (2017): Fam/Famine

G_d’s Pee at State’s End! (2021): Our Side Has to Win (for D.H.)

Albums Ranked

7. Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015)

6. G_d’s Pee at State’s End! (2021)

5. ’Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (2012)

4. Luciferian Towers (2017)

3. Yanqui U.X.O. (2002)

2. F# A# ∞ (1997)

1. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)