Yanqui U.X.O. la album phong thu thu ba cua ban nhac post-rock nguoi Canada Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Album đuoc san xuat va thu am boi Steve Albini tai Electrical Audio o Chicago, Illinois vao cuoi nam 2001. Đia nhac nay đuoc phat hanh boi hang đia Montreal Constellation ngay 11 thang 11 nam 2002 tai chau Au o dang CD va đia than va mot tuan sau tren toan cau.
Đay la đia nhac đau tien đuoc ra mat sau khi sua đoi ten nhom (chuyen dau cham thang tu"emperor"toi"you"), cung nhu album đau tien phat hanh ngoai pham vi Canada. Thieu van su hien dien cua ca field recording va nhung phan đoan (movement) đuoc đat ten, Yanqui U.X.O. đuoc ban nhac mo ta la"instrumental rock tho rap, gian du, nghich tai, hung trang."
Khong lau sau khi phat hanh album, Godspeed You! Black Emperor thong bao rang rang ban nhac se gian đoan vo han đinh vi cac thanh vien theo đuoi su nghiep am nhac rieng.


Boi canh "Yanqui"nghia la"Yankee"trong tieng Tay Ban Nha. Phan ghi chu bia goi"Yanqui"la"tap đoan đau so đa quoc gia", con"U.X.O."la"unexploded ordnance"(vat chua no). Bia sau cua album co mot so đo mui ten the hien lien ket giua bon hang đia lon (AOL Time-Warner, BMG, Sony, Vivendi Universal) va cac nha san xuat vu khi. Đi kem so đo la mot buc anh bom roi. Ban nhac sau đo thua nhan rang mot phan so đo nay khong chinh xac (vi du: EMI la mot chi nhanh cua AOL Time-Warner).
Album đuoc phat hanh duoi dang CD va đia than kep, ban đia than co ba khac biet đang chu y. Đau tien la ket hop hai phan cua"09-15-00"lam mot (ghi chu bia viet rang đay la ngay intifada Palestine thu hai bat đau, du đieu nay sai). Thu hai la su them vao cua mot track"an"khong ten (tuong tu nhu"J.L.H. Outro"tren ban CD cua F♯A♯∞); track an nay sample bai dien van cua George W. Bush voi tieng vo tay them vao (no cung xuat hien o track"The Day that Mauro Ran Over Elwy Yost"trong album đau tay Droopy Butt Begone! (2000) cua 1-Speed Bike, mot du an cua thanh vien Aidan Girt, cung nhu tren album tong hop Azadi! (2003) cua Museum Fire Records voi ten"George Bush Cut Up While Talking"). Cuoi cung, phan thu hai cua"Motherfucker=Redeemer"dai hon nam phut do phan intro ambient.
Tieu đe thay the cho mot so nhac khuc tung đuoc ban nhac su dung gom"12-28-99"("09-15-00"),"Tazer Floyd"("Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls"), va"Tiny Silver Hammers"("Motherfucker=Redeemer").


Thu am Album đuoc thu am tai Electrical Audio boi nha san xuat Steve Albini. Phoi khi boi ban nhac va Howard Bilerman (nguoi cung lam vai đoan thu am bo sung) tai Hotel2Tango o Montreal, master boi John Loder va Steve Rooke tai Abbey Road Studios o London, Anh.


Tiep nhan Yanqui U.X.O la đia nhac co nhieu y kien trai chieu nhat cua Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Trong khi mot so, nhu Allmusic, khen ngoi rang đay la album hoan thien nhat cua nhom, thi so khac, nhu Pitchfork Media, cho rang no"ue oai va thieu sang tao."


Danh sach nhac khuc = CD =


= Đia than =


Thanh phan tham gia Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Thierry Amar – guitar bass
David Bryant – guitar đien
Bruce Cawdron – trong
Aidan Girt – trong
Norsola Johnson – cello
Efrim Menuck – guitar đien
Mauro Pezzente – guitar bass
Roger Tellier-Craig – guitar đien
Sophie Trudeau – violin
Nhac cong khac
Josh Abrams – contrabass
Geof Bradfield – bass clarinet
Rob Mazurek – trumpet
Matana Roberts – clarinet
Thanh phan san xuat
Steve Albini – thu am, san xuat
Howard Bilerman – pho khi
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – phoi khi
John Loder – master
Steve Rooke – master


Chu thich Lien ket ngoai Yanqui U.X.O. Luu tru ngay 5 thang 1 nam 2010 tai Wayback Machine at Constellation Records