The smily dog "Jais"

Hi Geobloggers! Today i will talk about a cd cover that i really like - the album is a masterpiece also! - The past year, the music genre called Post Rock started to grow on me so i decided to swim into it. That’s how i found this masterpiece called F#A# ∞ (actually pronounced "F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity") by the canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Obviously the CD cover it’s itself a masterpiece: just a signboard, a couple of lights and a pretty dark-sad winter environment placed in what it seems, a road to somewhere. The CD cover itself is just a part of something bigger, is just a part of a whole which includes, of course, the music. The way that the cover interacts with the music, and the fact that most of the post-rock genre is known for not having any lyrics, just pure instrumental blissness. When you listen to the whole album in a dark environment like the cover, you realize that it was made for it, that it’s one of those albums who have such a high coherency between the cover and the music itself. That’s why I liked it, but I didn’t like it at first because i didn’t make the connection between those two things previously mentioned. The thing about this masterpiece is that, obviously is known as those best post-rock albums of all time by the community, but for me, it doesn’t necessarily has to be better that the rest, it’s just the way of how this album interacts with itself and the listener. Also, like i said before, it doesn’t have any lyrics but it has a couple of quotes taken from somewhere else that have some political but hidden way of expressing things, also could be in a philosophically way: the world burning, time traveling so fast, etc.

Overall, a sad but revealing experience worth a million of times.