Under the Radar

JAY BARUCHEL

Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Yanqui U.X.O is just the soundtrack to a fucking mental odyssey. I grew up in Montréal and if you were a kid in Montréal in the ’90s you obviously knew who the fuck Godspeed were. They were film students from Montréal that just started making the craziest, darkest, heaviest music ever recorded and I had listened to a few records and I’d always listen to them with the

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