This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
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Artist: This Will Destroy YouBrand: Magic Bullet Records
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Music Label: Magic Bullet
Soundtracks:
- A Three-Legged Workhorse
- Villa Del Refugio
- Threads
- Leather Wings
- The Mighty Rio Grande
- They Move On Tracks Of Never-Ending Light
- Burial On The Presidio Banks
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Free Music Review: NOW I've been destroyed.
Hit: 5 Stars
This Will Destroy You's debut EP "Young Mountain," while it was good, didn't quite send shivers up my spine like a lot of other post-rock bands tend to do. Their songs dragged on a little too much and while it was pretty, it wasn't anything TOO special.
So here comes their full-length self-titled album. This album, in my opinion, is miles ahead of Young Mountain. The build-ups are fantastic, the guitar work is fantastic with beautiful harmonies throughout and the climaxes are executed beautifully.
The opening track "A Three-Legged Workhorse" has many different colours throughout. The track opens with quiet guitar and light glitch drums...very nice, indeed. The acoustic drums kick in and everything goes uphill from there until a beautiful electronica-aided climax erupts. The rest of the song is really an ambient trip with soft guitars and hypnotizing drums. Fantastic.
Villa Del Rufigo is a very soothing, soft, percussion-less and ultimately beautiful track.
Threads has a pretty basic post-rock structure. It is a very beautiful song, though, that's for sure. The song doesn't stop for anything. It's a march forward until it's had enough and leaves you nearly breathless.
Leather Wings is a short little track...I'd almost call it an interlude. With reverbing guitars, a simple snare beat, and ambient sounds all over, it's truly a hauntingly beautiful little interlude.
Ahh, yes. The Mighty Rio Grande. At 11:18, this track stands high with another track that I haven't gotten to yet. There's a steady 4.5 minute crescendo until it finally fades into almost nothing again, just like it started. It then crescendos AGAIN into yet another beautifully full sound with extremely rich texture.
Clocking in at around 7:00, They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light is an extremely catchy and nostalgic song...something about it makes your mind wander to so many different things. The whole thing is essentially quiet, with glitch drums yet again...A very nice song.
Which brings us to the amazing conclusion that is "Burial on the Presido Banks." I would like to personally congratulate This Will Destroy You on creating one of the most addicting, beautiful, goreous, and powerful songs I've ever heard. The build-up is done perfectly with truly fantastic chord progression until it drops down yet again and builds up rather quickly, eventually turning into something absolutely beautiful...This is definitely my favourite track on the album. Distortion, reverbing guitars, and crashing cymbals are all used here and together they create something truly special. The first time I heard this track, I was totally blown away.
So, yes, I do believe this album deserves a 5/5. It's a very well-deserved 5/5. Congrats, TWDY. I'm looking forward to hearing more. Buy this.
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Not much more than a year ago, a tiny, unknown band from Texas put out their debut record Young Mountain through Magic Bullet Records, a 6-song, 36 minute disc originally only intended to be a DIY demo sold at local shows. It's fair to say that nobody could have predicted the year to follow, one in which THIS WILL DESTROY YOU went from local heroes to international darlings. The phenomenon took hold shortly after a brief basement tour of the west coast with labelmates SPARROWS SWARM AND SING. After a fun trip filled with good times and surprisingly large audiences (this was their first time out of Texas), the band returned home, unknowingly settling into what would become the eye of the storm to follow. Reviews of the album began to pour in, all singing unanimous praise. Even Pitchfork liked it... inciting a scramble for the record at retail and online (the band became one of iTunes' top artists in 2007). This parlayed into the THIS WILL DESTROY YOU being name-checked in publications like Rolling Stone and ultimately being awarded '2006 Album Of The Year' by Rock Sound editor Darren Taylor. 2007 saw even more growth for the band, as their music started seeing placement in everything from skateboarding and paintball videos to cable networks (VH1, Fuel, MTV) to independent documentary films and even major studio films. In one of the most bizarre events possible, the music of THIS WILL DESTROY YOU was present during a high-profile briefing and presentation before the nation's top military brass inside the Pentagon (yes, THAT Pentagon) concerning the failed efforts of Hurricane Katrina. Meanwhile, the band stayed active on the live front, stealing the show at a sold-out SXSW showcase and accepting an invitation to tour the U.S. with soon-to-be-upstaged-every-single-night FEAR BEFORE THE MARCH OF FLAMES. S/T is the second album from THIS WILL DESTROY YOU, clocking in a 7 tracks and 52 minutes. Recorded and produced by John Congleton (EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, MODEST MOUSE, R. KELLY), it is a stunning and worthy follow-up to Young Mountain. Darker and seamlessly more dynamic and emotionally gripping than its predecessor, S/T is primed and ready to push their entire genre forward and continue to win the band hearts and minds across the planet. This is a landmark album by a band that will inevitably be mentioned in the same breath as MOGWAI and SIGUR ROS without hesitation. Dive in.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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