Ah, the elongated instrumental fireworks of Explosions In The Sky. An awesome live band with expert mastery of the loud-quiet-louder-quieter-quieter-quieter-REALLYFUCKINGLOUD dynamic. Really interesting to listen to but definitely not good to put on late at night and fall asleep during the quiet bits (check out 'Like Herod' - YouTube link below). Then again, Explosions deal in a sweeter more hopeful version of post-rock so it's not a scary as drifting into slumber with Mogwai's 'Like Herod' on - which is severely traumatising, I can tell you.
I wasn't so keen on the last album but, after a relatively long hiatus, they're back with a new album - 'Take Care, Take Care, Take Care' - from which 'Trembling Hands' is the first thing I've heard. It's less loud-quiet and more rolling, but equally dynamic and quite lovely.
Download
Explosions In The Sky 'Trembling Hands' (mp3)
Mogwai 'Like Herod' (Live, from the Special Moves album) (Youtube)
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