Saturday, March 25, 2017
Explosions in the Sky
I was looking back through my old posts, and I can't find anything on this band out of Texas. They are a bit more well-known than the typical band I comment on. I've known about them for several years; however, at a recent yurt trip for a friend's bachelor party, one of the other groomsmen was playing their most recent album on some speakers he brought on the trip, and it was extremely good. Although the band has been around since 1999, this album "The Wilderness" was evidently their first one in five years. The music is exclusively instrumental, and highly orchestral, with a large variety of instruments and sounds. Overall it's sort of "epic" in the original sense of the word. Much of it sounds like a landscape. There are quite a few other bands who have a similar vision and sound (such as Mogwai and This Will Destroy You), but Explosions in the Sky is probably the best-known. If you haven't listened to them, do it.
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