The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Explosions In The Sky
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First Breath After Coma | Explosions In The Sky | 9:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Only Moment We Were Alone | Explosions In The Sky | 10:14 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Six Days At the Bottom of the Ocean | Explosions In The Sky | 8:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Memorial | Explosions In The Sky | 8:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Your Hand In Mine | Explosions In The Sky | 8:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 5 Songs |
Album Review
Explosions in the Sky's second effort takes a more studied, even lush approach to the literate chaos of their 2001 debut. But put on your sad sack thinking cap now, because Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place is a contemplative and heady rush of masterful melancholia. Its six songs are multi-minute, slow motion workouts of gentle electric guitar plucks and subtle/sudden washes of percussion — they're still instrumental, but as lyrical as anything in the indie rock universe. "Only Moment We Were Alone" turns on a simple, melancholy guitar figure, the drums shifting from insistent catch-up mode to a studied march built to introduce the next layered crescendo. Explosions in the Sky doesn't shift as suddenly or jarringly on Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place; the quartet has applied more structural predictability this time out, but is still quick about setting the sad butterflies in your stomach to fluttering. "Memorial" is the album's meditative heart. It begins so quietly, reduced to brittle landscapes of tone. Lightly chiming guitars drift in, like the echoes of church bells off in narrow city streets. Then, like each of the album's movements, it surges forward in a rush, like the overtures of Sonic Youth separated, dried, and ultimately lengthened in the blistering Texas sun. The final blast of distortion and staccato drumming is Earth at full bittersweet bluster. "Your Hand in Mine" ends things as they began, with a pair of determined guitars picking out a melody that's both pretty and pretty damn heartbreaking.
Customer Reviews
hmmm
absolutely great album and music but to buy "the only moment we were alone" you have to buy the album, which only consists of 5 sons, so if you buy the other 4 individually its 4 dollars but to get the last song its another 6 dollars since the album is $10.....someone needs to rethink this
Stunning
This album contains quite possibly the most beautiful and emotional music ever recorded. Your Hand in Mine remains the only song that is able to make me cry. If you're not going to get involved with it, yes, this CD/this band/post-rock in general can be "boring", but this CD is not meant to be cranked up in your car at tailgate parties. It's meant to be listened to in complete silence when you have 45 minutes to dedicate to listening. Each song is like the soundtrack to an emotional and life-affirming dream. These guys aren't trying to shove ideologies or even experiences down your throat, hoping you might relate to them. They simply intensify an experience, bringing your visions to life with perfectly sculpted plateaus, swells, and climaxes. While it's difficult to pick highlights, Your Hand In Mine, is not only probably the best song on the album, but one of the greatest songs ever. If there is a single disappointment, it might be Memorial, the beginning section seems to be treading water, and doesn't have the emotional depth of every other song. Oh, and if you're so upset about a 6$ song, why don't you just go out and buy the album, support your local independent record store and the artist. It's the cheapest, healthiest, and most power drug you can buy.
WOW..intense
man this music just makes you want to break down and cry just by the sound and tone of these songs. any album that does that deserves 5 stars.
Biography
Formed: 1999 in Austin, TX
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '00s
Top Albums and Songs by Explosions In The Sky
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Your Hand In Mine | The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 8:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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First Breath After Coma | The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 9:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Six Days At the Bottom of the Ocean | The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 8:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Remember Me As a Time of Day | How Strange, Innocence | 5:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Look Into the Air | How Strange, Innocence | 5:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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So Long, Lonesome | All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone | 3:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Memorial | The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place | 8:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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A Song for Our Fathers | How Strange, Innocence | 5:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Time Stops | How Strange, Innocence | 9:55 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Glittering Blackness | How Strange, Innocence | 5:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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- $9.99
- Genres:Rock, Music, Alternative, Indie Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock
- Released:Oct 12, 2004
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