{"product_id":"explosions-in-the-sky-end-yellow-lp-vinyl","title":"Explosions In The Sky – End (LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003ch3\u003eReview\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a group of instrumentalists, Explosions in the Sky have always made nakedly lyrical music. We can glean whatever clues we want from the song titles, but the Texas post-rockers' punch-the-sky guitar tremolo and lightning-bolt cymbals evoke scenery and theme more clearly than most bands' literal poetry. Since they're working with a rare gift for the dramatic, often building to rapturous crescendos, many of their tracks seem destined to score life's biggest moments—falling in love, breaking up, even dying. So it feels inevitable that they'd title an album End, using the concept of finality as a launching pad into some of their most quintessential, stirring pieces. It's been seven years since the last Explosions LP, The Wilderness, on which they took a more painterly path toward the same big-hearted vistas, weaving in electronics, strings and way more tonal variety. Some of those colors have survived. \"Ten Billion People\" kicks off with a scramble of ping-ponging synths, and pianos resound through a handful of epics, including \"All Mountains,\" in which the guitars pulsate like helicopter propellers and drift gently like daffodils. These guys feel every emotion intensely—the gentle stuff is always impossibly precious, and the heavy stuff barrels you like a battering ram. And the album's ultra Hi-Fi production (take a second to appreciate that swooshing hi-hat and tumbling tom fills on \"Moving On\") only nudges them further into the sublime. As always, words would only clutter the catharsis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e— Ryan Reed, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/relix.com\/reviews\/detail\/explosions-in-the-sky-end\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRelix\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Austin four-piece has spent over two decades building cathedrals out of electric guitar, and their devoted following knows that each record arrives on its own unhurried timeline. *End* finds them returning to the sprawling, dynamic arc that made *The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place* such a touchstone for instrumental rock, while pushing into heavier, more unsettled territory. The yellow vinyl pressing suits the music well; there's something elemental about holding this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEnd, the enigmatic new album by Explosions in the Sky, was inspired by darkness, but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death. \"Our starting point was the concept of an ending-death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we've all expanded on and made it's own world. Maybe it's our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation-the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next,\" says the band about the album. End is perhaps the \"grandest\" Explosions In The Sky album - melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the sonic texturing and ornate experimentation of their later releases, and their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalog, influenced by personal tastes stretching from classical to soul to experimental ambient music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_START --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide A\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Ten Billion People\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Moving On\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Loved Ones\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Peace Or Quiet\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide B\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. All Mountains\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. The Fight\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. It's Never Going To Stop\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_END --\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656605441450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Temporary Residence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.15.23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e LP Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadtime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48600438472859,"sku":"438330","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/7172\/files\/packshot-explosions-in-the-sky-end-yellow-lp-vinyl-vinyl-lp-relix.jpg?v=1779395680","url":"https:\/\/relix.shop\/products\/explosions-in-the-sky-end-yellow-lp-vinyl","provider":"relix.shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}