Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada

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Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada

EP by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Released	March 8, 1999
Recorded	The Gas Station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre	Post-rock
Length	28:36
Label	Constellation CST006 Kranky KRANK034
Pitchfork Media (9/10) April 1999 All Music Guide link CanuckistanMusic link
Godspeed You! Black Emperor chronology
aMAZEine 7" (1998)	Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada (1999)	Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000)

Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada was an EP released by Godspeed You! Black Emperor on the Montreal-based record label Constellation records in 1999.

The front of the album contains Hebrew characters, in transliterated form, "tohu va vohu". This phrase is used in Genesis 1:1-2, and means loosely "without form, and void." It refers to the shape of the universe before it was given form and order. The dots and dashes above the letters are called trope. They dictate the tune and intonation and are found in the Torah as well as the rest of the Hebrew bible. The back of the album contains a diagram with instructions in Italian on how to make a molotov cocktail.

"BBF3" refers to the vox pop interviewee, Blaise Bailey Finnegan III, whose eccentric ramblings form the core of the EP's second track. Finnegan recites a poem which he claims to have written himself. The poem is, in fact, mostly composed of lyrics from the song "Virus" by Iron Maiden that were written by the band's then-vocalist, Blaze Bayley. Godspeed You Black Emperor! were apparently unaware of this until after the release of the EP. Blaise Bailey Finnegan III is apparently the same person being interviewed at the beginning of f#a#∞'s "Providence," and indeed some concert performances of "BBF3" also incorporate that sample.