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| Artist: Explosions In The Sky
Label: Bella Union
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 2537
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5033197442723
ASIN: B000KP7KYY
Release Date: February 19, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Birth And Death Of The Day | | • | Welcome Ghosts | | • | It's Natural To Be Afraid | | • | What Do You Go Home To | | • | Catastrophe And The Cure | | • | So Long Lonesome |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Sometimes Explosions in the Sky start with a whisper and end with a scream, but on "Birth and Death of the Day", they begin with a scream and proceed into a symphonic odyssey that Aaron Copland might have composed if he'd played electric guitar. Like Copland, EITS are cinematic, but with more kinetic drive than any film--except maybe Koyaanisqatsi--could match. Compositions like "It's Natural to Be Afraid" take you on epic journeys that roar like a Harley Davidson one minute and slip into taut contemplation the next, using the slow-tension build that EITS have perfected. All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone was produced by John Congleton, who has worked with lo-fi groups like the Roots and the Mountain Goats. That might explain why the album lacks the atmosphere of EITS's monumental The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place and their Friday Night Lights soundtrack. Instead, they rely even more on the arc of their compositions and the integral twin lead guitar lines that never solo but always drive the songs. They can shift from power-chord aggression to the sound of plucked mandolins in an instant. This is progressive rock for people who weren't even born when prog reigned supreme. It's the sound of King Crimson, transmuted through punk and grunge aesthetics. --John Diliberto
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Takes you on an epic journey of Odysseyian proportions March 30, 2008
Piers Moktan (Khorsor Elephant Stable, Nepal)
Without words Explosions in The Sky manage to take you on incredibly lyrical and emotive journeys. This loud band from Austin Texas have always done this, have been smothered in critical praise for doing so, but are now doing it better than ever before. With merely guitars, bass, drums and a little piano, the symphonic majesty of their compositions feel like the odyssey of a great culture hero passing through an ordeal that promises rewards as great as salvation itself. Homer would surely have considered it a fine accompaniment to his epic tale. They tell us that it usually takes them months to compose even a single track, and after a few years work, even an album of a mere six songs is ample reward for all their conscientious efforts. This really is a remarkable piece of work, and news of its release was a day of wondrous anticipation for me. My immediate purchase was also further rewarded by an additional album of remixes by the likes of Four Tet, Adem, Jesu (aka Justin Broadrick who first rose to prominence with Godflesh in the late 80s), Mountains and Eluvium, every one of which works with, rather than against, the original material, staying true to the ethos of its original creators. This album really will enrich your life, and without it you'll be condemning yourself to spiritual impoverishment!
 flaws are showing September 17, 2007
sean paul mccann (ireland)
Explosions in the skys latest opus falls short on a consistent level of quality as was more or less attained on previous album 'the earth is not a cold,dead place'.
This is an album that has some wonderful crescendos and beautiful and soaring melodies and is rich enough in ideas,in fact with the introduction of keyboard a new dawn has awoken for the band but the flaws are obvious to me.
The problem is in not taking advantage of the soundscape that they create,needless feedback from amps interrupts the flow of the odd track and leaves it slightly ugly and in post rock that isnt the idea and the odd track just doesnt have focus stamped throughout but all in all this is a solid album but wont melt many souls.
Mind bendingly good August 25, 2007
Kevin Kenny (Perth. Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the best crescendo/post rock albums ever and the best release by far by the Explosions. I don't have the words to describe how beautiful the sound on this album is. Just about every track sends shivers up my spine. The album is a slow burner and will take two or three listens to bed in, but I think this is my top Album of 2007.
Also check out God Speed You Black Emperor (Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antenna) as well if this kind of sound does it for you.
All of a sudden i miss you July 15, 2007
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Explosions in the Sky specializes in sweeping, atmospheric prog/postrock/whatever. Call it constellation pop.
And in "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone," it sounds like they're creating the soundtrack to some epic, arty movie, kicking off with a bang and heading into more contemplative territory later on. Robust instrumentation and complex, swirling melodies keep it from ever getting dull or stagnant, despite no lyrics or vocals.
It opens with a bang -- the blaze of rumbly guitar like a car revving. But then it explodes into a ringing expanse of exquisite, soaring instrumentation that sounds like a post-rock orchestra... and quiets down into a gentle, rippling melody in the middle... only to blaze back into a determined, ringing melody, and sink back into a gentle rattling ballad.
It's an epic song, with more mood changes and more "highs" than most albums ever achieve in their entirety. And it segues seamlessly into the moody "Welcome Ghosts," with its blasts of percussion over a gentle melody, and into a string of other songs -- pretty acoustic balladry with explosive climaxes, gentle melodies that trickle like water.
It ends with both kinds of music: the tightly wound, upward-spiralling "Catastrophe and the Cure." And the finale is as intimate as the opener was epic, with a tinkly piano and dreamlike riffs smoothly lulling listeners right to the end.
Like any good post-rock album, "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone" is just like an exploration sketched out through music -- it has rises and falls, exciting moments, lulling peaceful stretches. If they ever made silent movies again, this would be a brilliant soundtrack for some epic, exquisitely-shot movie.
And it's performed with a robust quality that much post-rock doesn't have, not to mention their variety. Despite the lack of pop rhythms, they stick to melodies that hang around in your mind, and vary between ethereality and expansiveness, gentleness and bombastity.
It's especially impressive, because they use only typical rock'n'roll instrumentation. They have some truly brilliant guitar work, with dreamlike stretches or ringing riffs, and explosive, grimy eruptions off bass. There's some solid, smashing percussion, and a few songs have trickles of gentle piano and keyboard under them.
"All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone" is another solid collection of spacey, epic post-rock, and Explosions in the Sky are only getting better. Definitely a good listen.
Bit of a let down... July 10, 2007
Mr. S. M. Davies
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall, I found this quite a disappointing record, hence the three stars. I bought it based on 'The Earth is Not...' whose five songs were all of the highest quality.
So where does this record fall short? Well, EiTS again go for a short number of tracks (six), but at least two of these songs just don't pass muster (the relatively short 'So Long...', 'What Do You...'), two are average (the lightweight 'Welcome, Ghosts', 'Catastrophe and the Cure'), which leaves you with only two memorable tracks. I think the problem is that the band hasn't really developed their sound or taken many risks with their style. The album does have a more punchier feel, with less reverb than the previous album and more distorted tones with the guitar, but it just feels unconvincing in places because the band are so clearly going over old ground.
'Catastrophe', for instance, starts of with a real sense of urgency and some fantastically taut drumming, but after the second repetition you sense a malaise creeping in. The song fails to bring itself back up to the emotional tenor of the beginning. 'Welcome, Ghosts' again has some nice moments, shifting mood with some fantastic alternations between loud/quiet - but, once again, the song fails to come to a satisfying conclusion. Opening track 'The Birth and Death of the Day' fares better than both and has its structure absolutely spot on. There is also some fraut guitar playing and drum rolls in the song's crescendo. I would rate this song amongst their good stuff.
But the album does have one absolute stand-out, 'It's Natural to be Afraid'. It's split into three sections and goes from ambient/piano/feedback storm in the first section, to a clutch of twinkling, delicate melodies in the middle, before finishing things off with an absolutely breathtaking distorted outro. Basically, EiTS have their structure right in this song and they have the melodies to back it up. This is what they can do when they want to, and the emotional power is up there with anything they have on the previous record. There is an integrity to the melodies that isn't there on songs like 'So Long, Lonesome', which makes me think this album is a bit of a let down.
I just think that after this album the band may have to look at ripping up their rulebook. Despite the excellence of 'It's Natural...' there is a sense of a lack of an ideas, or the band maybe feeling that they have to revert to type or something. They are a cut above most of the post-rock bands out there but they need to try something different or they will fall into self-parody.
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