Godspeed You! Black Emperor founder and guiatrist Efrim Menuck has officially released the band's iconically mysterious 1993 debut tape, All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling.
The project, released in a limited run of 33 cassettes, was a Smile for the internet age — a rare treasure potentially lost to the ether, famously commanding a multi-terrabyte bounty on What.CD that was never paid out.
All Lights resurfaced online last week, but both Godspeed! and their label, Constellation Records, refused to confirm the veracity of the leak, until today.
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