Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Montreal band formed in 1994;{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-531373-4 |editor-last=Larkin |editor-first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin |location=Oxford |edition=4th |pages=77–78}} the band hails from the Canadian post-rock scene.{{cite magazine |last=Hancox |first=Dan |date=21 March 2005 |title=The download |magazine=New Statesman |volume=134 |issue=4732}}{{cite journal |last1=Bagley |first1=Mark J.O. |last2=Gifford |first2=Ethan |last3=McKelvey |first3=Maureen |date=13 December 2021 |title=The evolution of niche: variety in knowledge networks in the global music industry |journal=Industry and Innovation |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=425–462 |doi=10.1080/13662716.2021.2007758 |doi-access=free}} The band's label Constellation plays a central role,{{sfn|Leech|2017|p=319}} although both founder Ian Ilavsky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor guitarist Efrim Menuck have stated they see their music as more punk rock than post-rock.{{sfn|Leech|2017|pp=307–308}} Godspeed You! Black Emperor's politically motivated music output is primarily instrumental, being framed with field recordings and tape manipulation. According to The A.V. Club{{'s}} Andrew Paul, their early work leading up to Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven "[came] across like an attempt to blend divinity and human folly atop the same sonic canvas," with the music conveying humanity's hopelessness and self-destruction.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor released three records in the 1990s: the self-released cassette All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling (1994), the studio album F♯ A♯ ∞ (1997), and the EP Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (1999).{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetor0000unse_k1o0/ |chapter=Godspeed You Black Emperor! |last=Layne |first=Joslyn |editor1=Vladimir Bogdanov |editor2=Chris Woodstra |editor3=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul |publisher=Backbeat Books |edition=3 |pages=468–469 |date=2002 |isbn=978-0-87-930653-3}} The band also regularly staged three-hour long live performances,{{sfn|Barclay|2022|p=89}} including in major cities such as London, San Francisco, and New York City.{{sfn|Adams|2023|p=238}} During this time, they started receiving attention beyond the underground scene, with much critical analysis of their work. The band itself has typically avoided interviews and promotional material,{{sfn|Leech|2017|p=307}} citing concerns of misrepresentation of their work in the media and bafflement at their increased popularity.{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/the-wire-magazine-2000-05-cbz/ |last=Keenan |first=David |title=Life Stinks |magazine=The Wire |date=May 2000 |pages=36–41 |access-date=17 December 2023}} Two notable exceptions include their interviews for The Wire and NME, with the latter's being a cover interview despite the cover not featuring a picture of the band.{{sfn|Leech|2017|p=316}}

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Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven is a post-rock album consisting of four 20-minute tracks divided into movements: "Storm", "Static", "Sleep", and "Antennas to Heaven". Godspeed You! Black Emperor recorded the album in Chemical Sound Studios, Toronto, in nine days in February 2000 with Daryl Smith,{{sfn|Adams|2023|p=236}} using material drawn from the band's then-recent live performances.{{sfn|Barclay|2022|pp=89–90}} The instrumentation involved string instruments, guitars, pianos, and static. Most of the album is instrumental, often consisting of cresendoes from "slow and vaporous" music to "towering waves of sound" before dissipating. An exception is the use of field recordings, including a loudspeaker announcement from ARCO, a preacher's religious rant, an old man musing about Coney Island, and a folk song performed by former band member Mike Moya. According to Menuck, the composition of the tracks drew upon his filmmaking studies, with him comparing the combining of musical pieces and field recordings to film editing.{{sfn|Leech|2017|p=310}} Compared to previous projects by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven is more progressive and hopeful. In a 2012 interview from the Guardian, the band collectively stated their intent from the beginning was to create "heavy music, joyously" that acknowledged yet dismissed the bleakness of contemporary times, contrary to popular belief.{{cite interview |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/oct/11/godspeed-black-emperor-interview-full-transcript |author=Godspeed You! Black Emperor |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor – the full transcript |interviewer=Maddy Costa |work=The Guardian |date=11 October 2012 |access-date=20 December 2023}} Jeanette Leech argued Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven represented this ideal in Fearless: the Making of Post-Rock.{{sfn|Leech|2017|pp=309–310}}

Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven was released as a double album on 9 October 2000 by Constellation in vinyl format{{cite web |url=http://www.cstrecords.com/html/cst012main.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001019015028/http://www.cstrecords.com/html/cst012main.html |title=godspeed you black emperor!: lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven |website=Constellation |date=9 October 2000 |archive-date=19 October 2000 |access-date=15 December 2024}} and on 23 October 2000 by American record label Kranky in CD format.{{cite web |url=http://www.kranky.net/new.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001017192758/http://www.kranky.net:80/new.html |title=krank 043 – godspeed you black emperor!, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven DCD |website=Kranky |date=October 2000 |archive-date=17 October 2000 |access-date=15 December 2024}} The typewritten liner notes jokingly refer to the band as "god's [sic] pee"; refer to the songs as "more awkward pirouettes in the general direction of hope [and] joy" and "a tentative stagger towards the pale [and] holy fading light"; and dedicate the album to prisoners, alongside "quiet refusals, loud refusals, and sad refusals."{{cite web |last=Khanna |first=Vish |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/godspeed_you_black_emperor-theres_only_hope |title=Godspeed You Black Emperor There's Only Hope |date=5 May 2015 |website=Exclaim! |access-date=14 March 2018}} The inner panels of the vinyl edition and a paper insert in the CD edition uses a diagram drawn by Menuck to illustrate the album's movements and sound. The diagram denotes the time length and name of each movement, and uses gradients to represent their intensity.{{sfn|Leech|2017|p=310}}

The album's packaging contains artwork by William Schaff from a zine titled Notes to a Friend; Silently Listening No. 2, which dealt with his struggles as a young artist. Schaff first met Menuck at Hotel2Tango, bonding over their shared interests and themes of workers' plight. Later, after he left behind some of his work at Hotel2Tango, Menuck approached him for permission to use his work for the album.{{cite interview |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/william-schaff-interview-2016/ |last=Schaff |first=William |author-link=William Schaff |interviewer=Graham Isador |title=This is The Faceless Dude Behind the Iconic Album Artwork of Godspeed You!, Okkervil River, and More |magazine=Vice |date=1 June 2016 |access-date=16 December 2024 |archive-date=12 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812201238/https://www.vice.com/en/article/william-schaff-interview-2016/ |url-status=live }} One image included in the packaging depicts Benjamin Franklin severing Schaff's hands with shears as he is signing a lease, while another depicts Schaff, his wrists bandaged, witnessing George Washington and Franklin waving a pantsuit in front of a withdrawn woman.{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/godspeed-you-black-emperor-lift-2000 |last=Schmidt |first=Nate |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Opus Remains Powerful and Prescient |website=PopMatters |date=10 July 2024 |access-date=15 December 2024}} The cover art, depicting Schaff's severed hands, was repurposed from Notes to a Friend; Silently Listening No. 2 by John Arthur Tinholt.

Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven entered into the UK charts, run by the Official Charts Company, on the week of 21 October 2000. The album was on the UK Independent Albums Charts for five weeks, peaking at number five, and was on two other charts for one week, peaking at number 66 for the UK Album Charts and number 69 for the Scottish Albums Charts.{{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/albums/godspeed-you-black-emperor-lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to/ |title=Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor |website=Official Charts Company |access-date=16 December 2024}}

{{Music ratings

| MC = 84/100{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to-heaven/godspeed-you!-black-emperor |title=Reviews for Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor |website=Metacritic |accessdate=12 July 2012 |archive-date=28 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150328023853/http://www.metacritic.com/music/lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to-heaven/godspeed-you!-black-emperor |url-status=live }}

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| rev2 = Alternative Press

| rev2score = 5/5{{cite magazine |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |magazine=Alternative Press |issue=150 |date=January 2001 |page=94}}

| rev3 = The Austin Chronicle

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2000-11-10/79331// |title=Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Kranky) |newspaper=The Austin Chronicle |date=10 November 2000 |accessdate=12 July 2012 |last=Chamy |first=Michael |archive-date=18 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618174006/http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2000-11-10/79331// |url-status=live }}

| rev4 = The Guardian

| rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,3605,377787,00.html |title=The anarchist rock book |newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 October 2000 |accessdate=12 July 2012 |last=Cameron |first=Keith}}

| rev5 = NME

| rev5score = 9/10{{cite magazine |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |magazine=NME |date=14 October 2000 |page=40}}

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6score = 9.0/10{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3489-lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to-heaven/ |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |website=Pitchfork |date=25 October 2000 |accessdate=12 July 2012 |last=Sirota |first=Brent S. |archive-date=24 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924061432/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3489-lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to-heaven/ |url-status=live }}

| rev7 = Q

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |magazine=Q |issue=171 |date=December 2000 |page=122}}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

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| rev9 = Select

| rev9score = 5/5{{cite journal |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven |journal=Select |issue=125 |date=November 2000 |last=McDermott |first=Leon}}

| rev10 = Spin

| rev10score = 8/10{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPe2ZKjsEBIC&pg=PT16 |title=Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas... |magazine=Spin |volume=16 |issue=12 |date=December 2000 |access-date=26 August 2015 |last=Rubin |first=Mike |pages=56–57}}

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Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven garnered critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it has a score of 84 based on 13 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Critics have regarded the album to be beautiful and sprawling.{{efn|Attributed to multiple sources:}} Alternative Press called it "a massive instrumental effort" that is "as skilled and musical as it is on-the-fly improvised and messy",{{cite magazine|title=Review of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven|magazine=Alternative Press|issue=150|page=94}} and The Austin Chronicle calling it "cinematic" and "breathtaking in its grandiose beauty". Highlighting the album's uplifting nature and use of field recordings, The Village Voice called Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas the "best movie I've seen all year."{{cite magazine |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0052/seward.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020606053326/http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0052/seward.php |last=Seward |first=Scott |title=Snowplow You Bad Elephant! |magazine=The Village Voice |date=2 January 2001 |archive-date=6 June 2002 |access-date=27 December 2024}} Among more mixed reviews, Rolling Stone found the album one-note but commended its compositional ambition, and The Guardian noted occasional "passages of spellbinding beauty" but found the listening experience uneven.

Critical comparisons with Godspeed You! Black Emperor's prior discography were divided. The A.V. Club called the album "as beautiful and disarming as its predecessors".{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Stephen |url=https://www.avclub.com/godspeed-you-black-emperor-lift-your-skinny-fists-lik-1798192504 |title=Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven |work=The A.V. Club |date=9 October 2000 |access-date=19 November 2024 |archive-date=5 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241205005017/https://www.avclub.com/godspeed-you-black-emperor-lift-your-skinny-fists-lik-1798192504 |url-status=live }} Pitchfork assessed the first disc as representative of the band's past work and the second disc to be "the future", and AllMusic found the album overall to be less predictable due to its dynamic nature. In contrast, The Wire found the album to be more meaningless, with the radical nature of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's music being "reduced to rock gesture"{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/the-wire-magazine-2000-10-cbz/ |last=Kopf |first=Biba |title=Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Levez Vos Skinny Fists Comme Antennas To Heaven |magazine=The Wire |date=October 2000 |page=66}} Both Spin and The Guardian considered the album less consistent than the band's prior work.

Retrospectively, critical reception of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven has remained positive. Tiny Mix Tapes called the album "alternately hypnotic and captivating, sleepy and startling" comparing its sounds to "a far subtler Pink Floyd".{{cite web |url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/godspeed-you-black-emperor-lift-your-skinny-fists-antennas-heaven/ |title=Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |date=14 December 2006 |website=Tiny Mix Tapes |access-date=12 July 2012}} Sputnikmusic gave the album a perfect score and, deeming the album indescribable, called upon the reader to listen to the album for themselves.{{cite web |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/37908/Godspeed-You%21-Black-Emperor-Lift-Your-Skinny-Fists-Like-Antennas-to-Heaven/ |author=Knott |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |website=Sputnikmusic |date=13 July 2010 |access-date=16 December 2024}} In their 20th anniversary reviews, both The A.V. Club and Stereogum deemed the album as representative of the failures of capitalism in the 21st century and highly mythical and evocative.{{Cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/godspeed-you-black-emperor-s-lift-your-skinny-fists-r-1844406486 |last=Paul |first=Andrew |date=14 August 2020 |access-date=14 August 2020 |language=en-US |title=Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Lift Your Skinny Fists… Remains the Band's Most Prophetic Work |website=The A.V. Club}}{{cite web |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2100526/lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to-heaven-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/ |last=Breihan |first=Tom |title=Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven Turns 20 |website=Stereogum |date=16 December 2020 |access-date=16 December 2024 |archive-date=14 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114205850/https://www.stereogum.com/2100526/lift-your-skinny-fists-like-antennas-to-heaven-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/ |url-status=live }} PopMatters positively emphasized the album's instrumental and protesting nature.

The album went on to be included in numerous year-end and decade-end music lists. Magnet included it in its "20 Best Albums of 2000" list.{{cite magazine|title=20 Best Albums of 2000|magazine=Magnet|issue=1–2/01|page=45}} NME ranked it number 16 in its "Top 50 Albums of the Year".{{cite magazine|title=Albums Of The Year|url=https://www.nme.com/features/2000-2-1045357|magazine=NME|date=30 December 2000|page=78|access-date=16 March 2014|archive-date=11 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411170425/https://www.nme.com/features/2000-2-1045357|url-status=live}} Sputnikmusic named it the 6th best album of the 2000s.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/blog/2010/06/11/top-100-albums-of-the-decade-10-1// |title=Top 100 Albums of the Decade – Sputnikmusic (10–1) |date=11 June 2010 | first=Nick | last=Greer | website=Sputnikmusic |access-date=3 June 2018}} Pitchfork named it the 5th best album of the year{{cite web |title=Top 20 Albums of 2000 |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5816-top-20-albums-of-2000/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930190228/https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5816-top-20-albums-of-2000/ |archive-date=30 September 2012 |accessdate=12 July 2012 |website=Pitchfork}} and the 65th best album of the decade.{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7708-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-100-51/4/ |title=The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 100–51 |website=Pitchfork |access-date=12 July 2012 |archive-date=10 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110235236/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7708-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-100-51/4/ |url-status=dead }} They also ranked the first movement of the track 'Storm' at #283 on their list of "Top 500 tracks of the 2000s".{{Cite web|date=16 March 2018|title=The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 500–201 {{!}} Pitchfork|website=Pitchfork |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7685-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-500-201/?page=2|access-date=22 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316000235/https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7685-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-500-201/?page=2|archive-date=16 March 2018}} Tiny Mix Tapes ranked it 7th on their "Favorite 100 Albums of 2000–2009" list.{{Cite web |url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/favorite-100-albums-2000-2009-20-01 |title=Favorite 100 Albums of 2000–2009: 20–01 |website=Tiny Mix Tapes |access-date=12 July 2012 |archive-date=2 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702153023/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/favorite-100-albums-2000-2009-20-01 |url-status=live }} LAS Magazine ranked it the 14th greatest album of the decade.{{cite web |url=http://www.lostatsea.net/feature.phtml?fid=2664814564add854d64bca |title=2000–2009: Albums of the Decade |website=LAS Magazine |accessdate=12 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907200033/http://www.lostatsea.net/feature.phtml?fid=2664814564add854d64bca |archive-date=7 September 2015 |url-status=dead }} Gigwise included the album on its list of the 50 best albums of the 2000s.{{cite web |url=http://www.gigwise.com/photos/52489/The-50-Greatest-Albums-of-the-2000s |title=The 50 Greatest Albums of the 2000s! |website=Gigwise |access-date=8 September 2017 |archive-date=19 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919231014/http://www.gigwise.com/photos/52489/The-50-Greatest-Albums-of-the-2000s |url-status=live }} A 2020 BBC overview of double albums lists this as an "honorable mention" for releases that the audience needs to hear.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5DTtj9br4N6MpYqbGFsw0LQ/sign-o-the-long-running-times-10-essential-double-albums-you-need-to-hear |title=Sign o' the Long Running Times: 10{{nbsp}}Essential Double Albums You Need to Hear |publisher=BBC |access-date=13 August 2020 |language=en-GB |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813000735/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5DTtj9br4N6MpYqbGFsw0LQ/sign-o-the-long-running-times-10-essential-double-albums-you-need-to-hear |url-status=live }} Paste magazine placed this album on 6 in their list of 50 post-rock albums of all time.{{Cite web|last=Ham|first=Robert|date=18 December 2016|title=The 50 Best Post-Rock Albums|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/post-rock/the-50-best-post-rock-albums/|access-date=5 July 2021|website=Paste|language=en|archive-date=19 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319170921/https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/post-rock/the-50-best-post-rock-albums|url-status=live}}

Adapted from Godspeed You! Black Emperor's official discography.{{cite web |url=http://www.brainwashed.com/godspeed/music.html |title=godspeed you! black emperor |website=brainwashed.com |accessdate=8 September 2017 |archive-date=1 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901072926/http://brainwashed.com/godspeed/music.html |url-status=live }}

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| headline = Disc one

| title1 = Storm"

• "Lift Yr. Skinny Fists, Like Antennas to Heaven..."
• "Gathering Storm" / "Il Pleut à Mourir [+Clatters Like Worry]"
• "'Welcome to Barco AM/PM...' [L.A.X.; 5/14/00]"
• "Cancer Towers on Holy Road Hi-Way

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• 6:15
• 11:10
• 1:15
• 3:52

| title2 = Static"

• "Terrible Canyons of Static"
• "Atomic Clock."
• "Chart #3"
• "World Police and Friendly Fire"
• "[...+The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now]

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• 3:34
• 1:09
• 2:39
• 9:48
• 5:25

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| headline = Disc two

| title3 = Sleep"

• "Murray Ostril: '...They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach...'"
• "Monheim"
• "Broken Windows, Locks of Love Pt. III." / "3rd Part

| length3 = 23:17

• 1:10
• 12:14
• 9:53

| title4 = Like Antennas to Heaven..."

• "Moya Sings 'Baby-O'..."
• "Edgyswingsetacid"
• "[Glockenspiel Duet Recorded on a Campsite in Rhinebeck, N.Y.]"
• "'Attention...Mon Ami...Fa-Lala-Lala-La-La...' [55-St. Laurent]'"
• "She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer, She Dreamt She Was Alone in an Empty Field"
• "Deathkamp Drone"
• "[Antennas to Heaven...]

| length4 = 18:57

• 1:00
• 0:58
• 0:46
• 1:18
• 9:43
• 3:09
• 2:02

| total_length = 42:14

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Adapted from liner notes and AllMusic. Names are in order based on liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |author=Godspeed You Black Emperor! |author-link=Godspeed You! Black Emperor |chapter=...More Awkward Piraiettes in the General Direction of Hope + Joy |title=Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |publisher=Constellation Records |type=artwork |location=Montreal |id=cst012 }}

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

• Sophie Trudeau – violin
• Norsola Johnson – cello
• David Bryant – electric guitar
• Thierry Amar – bass guitar
• Aidan Girt – drums
• Mauro Pezzente – bass guitar
• Bruce Cawdron – drums
• Roger Tellier-Craig – guitar
• Efrim Menuck – guitar

Other personnel

• Daryl Smith – recording
• Brian Cram – horn (tracks 1a and 3c)
• Alfons – horn (tracks 1a and 3c)

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• {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/fearlessmakingof0000leec/ |last=Leech |first=Jeanette |title=Fearless: the Making of Post-Rock |publisher=Jawbone Publisher |date=2017 |isbn=978-1-91-103615-9}}

• {{Cite web |url=http://cstrecords.com/releases/cst012 |title=Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |website=Constellation Records |access-date=3 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721004242/http://cstrecords.com/releases/cst012 |archive-date=21 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}
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