Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
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Artist: Explosions in the SkyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Temporary Residence
Soundtracks:
- Song for Our Fathers
- Snow and Lights
- Magic Hours
- Look into the Air
- Glittering Blackness
- Time Stops
- Remember Me as a Time of Day
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Free Music Review: Underrated album that explodes with emotion
Hit: 5 Stars
It's funny how Hollywood can popularize yet ruin your favorite music at the same time. EitS' music used to conjur detailed images of bleak, wintery landscapes but now I have to shake flashes of high school football (and an occasional post-rock induced zombie) from my mind.
That said, if you haven't been previously poisoned by EitS' Friday Night Lights contribution or the post-rock themed 28 Days Later, then you can fully appreciate this album. EitS has a unique sound that has been imitated by several bands, none of which have been able to execute as amazingly their majestic, passionate sound that builds to droning crescendos then pulls you into a sound vacuum leaving you to beg for more. I consider this "headphone" music best listened to in darkness so you can appreciate all of the audio textures that comprise their style.
I picked this album because it contains several tracks that showcase EitS' range, including "Magic Hours" which is glorious yet at the same time dark and, well, magical. I was affected most by "Glittering Blackness" with starts with harmonics that lull you into a false sense of security before the song erupts into an acoustical onslaught, only to release you again and restart the roller coaster ride. Truly a tremendous album that I would recommend as your first taste of EitS.
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"At certain points along the way, several of us wanted to buy back all the copies and burn them," writes Explosions in the Sky on their liner notes to this reissued debut. That's not a rousing recommendation, but an honest one from a group that three years later would produce one of the definitive post-modern guitar instrumental albums, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place. How Strange, Innocence was reportedly made in only two days and released as a 300-issue CD-R in 2000. It's as rough and ready as that might suggest, but the sound of EITS was already well-formed right out of the Austin electric guitar womb. The opening "Song for Our Fathers" with its languid rhythm and surf guitar reverb fits right in with their later work. It's not perfect. They hadn't yet become sultans of the slow build crescendo, and there are more muffs than any self-respecting musician would want frozen for posterity. Nevertheless, it holds up as a rustic artifact and songs like the opener and "Look Into the Air" fulfill their mission of mood. Even before they were providing atmospheric soundtracks for Friday Night Lights and recording minor symphonies of electric guitar twang, Explosions in the Sky already had a clear vision of their sound. --John DilibertoAlternative Rock Music CDs
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