I first heard Godspeed You Black Emperor while travelling on a train through Germany. One word I could use to describe them would be epic.. They seem to be letting the music spill out of them in a way that makes it sound as fresh as if they had just written it. I wasn't surprised to find out that there were 9 members they even had 20 members at some point. The songs are really long, maybe about 29 minutes for some. They start of somewhere, take you up to the edge, drop you off and then carry you back up again. The music which is all instrumental is kind of melancholic and reminds me of a darker version of Explosions in the Sky. They are anti-mainstream/corporate and don't do interviews and hardly anything is known about them personally. Unfortunately they are no longer together so there's no way to see them live but one of the members is now doing a project called Fly Pan am.
They probably are about as close as you get to real music.
Free downloads here
http://www.last.fm/music/Godspeed+You!+Black+Emperor
http://www.last.fm/music/Fly+Pan+Am
http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/
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