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Tax avoidance? Enraging fastidious album alphabetizers? Perhaps the members in question truly believe that this incremental shift in direction is worthy of a name change. Whatever the reasons for Efrim Menuck’s most enduring band being called Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra for this, their sixth album, you can probably get away in most polite company with just calling them A Silver Mt Zion. Debuting in , they have existed on a plateau of popularity for the best part of the last decade: moves that might have blown a few young minds when carried out by Efrim’s first, best-known band Godspeed You Black Emperor! are probably not causing many people to reenact that scene from Scanners these days. That’s no reason to dismiss Kollaps Tradixionales, however.
They start with the record’s longest track, the minute second ‘There Is A Light’. It’s tempting to flag this up as a ‘because we can’ gesture – people who buy our albums LIKE the long haul! – but this risks snark where, arguably, none is needed: it works very well as an opener. It’s very slow and somber and its strings swell and sob; then it kicks up a gear and thrives on its own discordance. (Drummer David Payant, the one new addition to this trimmed-down version of the band
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