16. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Yanqui U.X.O.' (2002). Albini is famous for recording direct, impactful, noisy rock music, and that description doesn't jibe with Godspeed You! Black Emperor's steez -- Elegiac, slow-moving 20-minute instrumental pieces that aim to somehow signify human resistance to corporate evil. And yet Godspeed sounded as lush and monolithic as ever inside the recording booths ...
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