Explosions In The Sky

Hello All,

My previous post was on post-rock music, which I have just got into in the last year, at first with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, then with Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra and more recently with Explosions In The Sky.

I cannot even remember what led me to buying my first Explosions In The Sky album, but I know that I love the band and currently own 3 of their 4 albums ( I am not continuing their EP The Rescue released in 2005). I often listen to their music when I go to bed because it helps me sleep, but I also enjoying listening to it while I read as background sounds. After I released that much of one of their albums was created for use in the film Friday Night Lights, I rewatched the film and realized that the music was from my favourite album from them; The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place. I do also very much like their 200o release How Strange, Innocence. To me their music conveys a lot of emotion. When listening to their music I feel sad, reflective, melancholic, hopeful, energized (much of the Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place features music that really pumps you up; I do the treadmill listening to this album on my ipod).

The band is from Texas, formed in 1999 and plays with 3 electric guitars, drum and sometimes an electric guitar is substituted for a bass guitar. Like many of the post-rock or Instrumentals or whatever you want to call this type of band they are very independent. I cannot often find their CDs in my local HMV, Best Buy or Future Shop stores.

I aim to in the next few months to purchase the outstanding Explosions In The Sky CD and add it to my music collection. If anyone reading this who is a friend or relative of mine and wishes to hear so let me know and when I see you next I can bring a CD or if you are over I can put some on and you can give it a listen.

I hope this brief blog entry has been interesting and informative to you, the readers and I look forward to your comments and questions, so please if you have any please leave me.

Thanks for reading.

FaNbOy DaVe