I was talking to one of my friends about the band Godspeed You Black Emperor! the other day and he told me that if I liked them i'd like this band called Explosions In The Sky. So, I downloaded one of their albums last night not expecting much. Turns out, this is one of the better bands i've heard in a long time. It's straight instrumental with the occasional spoken word piece thrown in, but it's more emotive than any band you'll ever hear with lyrics. It's just incredible, incredible stuff. I'll post the description their labels web site gives since my words could never do them justice...

"Last year the boys in The American Analog Set sent us a live cassette of an Explosions In The Sky show with a note attached that read: THIS TOTALLY FUCKING DESTROYS. After half a listen, we couldn't describe it better. Made up of four soft spoken Texas lads, EITS makes music from the heart, for the heart. Steeped in sentimental melodies and dreamy soundscapes, each song lifts you in the air and carries you away, touching down on Earth occasionally to witness total destruction by way of their walls of cacophonous noise. Layers of chiming guitars become layers of metallic annihilation in the blink of an eye. Total silence to total violence, that's what we're talking about here, kids."

Yeah, so you guys (torri, rod, lovemerox, ahmed johnson, andaroo, hell even rusty would probably like it) that like good music need to download any track off of their album "Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever" like, right now. A great starter track would be "Yasmin The Light" which has a beautiful, "twinkly" riff for about two minutes and then an insane breakdown which will kill you. The song is over seven minutes long, but I really think you guys will dig 'em. It's not too loud or crazy, so no excuses!

I've got a couple of their tracks downloading right now and I'll give ya my two cents about em later tonight.

rusty...

Do you know which tracks they are? Did you already have them before reading this post?

I'm just downloading the tracks
from west texas
the only moment we were alone
inside it all feels the same

I'm getting them through ares but it's going slow...

Ah. Those are all off of the Friday Night Lights soundtrack. I haven't heard those, so I can't tell ya if they'll be any good or not.

well from west texas was a pretty good instrumental. Good vibe to it. I liked it.

Cool. I'm glad you like 'em so far. If you dig all the tracks you downloaded, do seek out some stuff off their "Those Who Tell Truth..." album. It's amazing.

are all their songs instrumentals? That's two songs now I download that are instrumentals.

Yeah, they're a strictly instrumental band. They have one or two songs that have some spoken word in them, but other than that they let their music do the talking.

The only moment we were alone sounded familiar because I heard the song before but never knew it was them. I like that one.

coincidentally, l just randomly "acquired" "The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place" by em...l really don't like it too much. I mean, it's ok and all, but l find it kinda hard to get into. Certainly not bad...just not for me.