Explosions In The Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band, which fo… Read Full Bio ↴Explosions In The Sky is an American instrumental post-rock band, which formed in Austin, Texas in 1999. Munaf Rayani, Mark Smith, and Michael James had just moved to Austin from Midland, Texas, and drummer Chris Hrasky had just moved to Austin from Rockford, Illinois.
The band quickly gained a reputation for their live shows even amongst other established local bands such as Lift To Experience. They also garnered a small amount of media attention as a result of their second album Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, due to rumors linking it to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks - The album was released in late August 2001, with liner notes containing a picture of an airplane and the text "This Plane Will Crash Tomorrow".
"The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place" is their third full-length album (counting "How Strange, Innocence" as their debut, see below). It shows the band has developed their characteristic sound to its full potential and the album has been critically acclaimed.
Friday Night Lights, the football movie based on the book of the same name, featured a soundtrack consisting mostly of songs by Explosions in the Sky, both original (as found on the Friday Night Lights soundtrack ) and from earlier releases. They are also frequently played in the TV-series sharing the name.
21: The Rescue, an experimental work for which the band sat down for eight days creating a song for each. The clapping and finger snapping on "Day Eight" is a good example of a harmonic restructuring of their old sound.
How Strange, Innocence, the band's debut album, was finally remastered and re-released, making it accessible to a much larger audience. The first pressing consisted of only 300 CD-Rs that the band would later regret handing out as they felt the work to be naive, musically simple and not up to their standards. They have since learned to love, as well as hate, their debut as a showcase of their emotional range and emerging talent.
They recorded a live session in 1999 at KVRX Radio in Austin, Texas when they were still called 'Breaker Morant'. Early rawer versions of some How Strange songs were played plus the version of 'Remind Me as a Time of Day' they used for that record. The performance is also noted for featuring several songs whose original titles have been lost in time's memory hole that remain unreleased to this day. The band probably felt the songs were too juvenile and abandoned them for good, considering the way they felt about How Strange as a record itself. After exiting that live session, they saw fireworks in the sky and that is where the name 'Explosions in the Sky' came from.
On 20 Feb 2007, the band released, 'All Of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone'. The band's next album "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care" was released in April 2011. Their latest and most polarising record to date was called 'The Wilderness' from 2016. It marked their complete departure from their usual sound.
The band is considered nowadays as an entry-level point to post-rock for many people and they are often held responsible for the popularisation of (modern) post-rock and its subsequent flood of 'copycats' of a sound that has been done to 'exhaustion'. They are post-rock's poster boy band, perhaps even more so than Mogwai themselves. However, this should not remove the intrinsic value in their music or what they did for post-rock many years ago even though the quiet-loud-quiet structure/dynamic is anything they even hardly pioneered.
Their music simply added a then unseen emotional dimension to post-rock with exclusively instrumental songs. Although as with most of the original 'crescendocore' bands of yore, they have since abandoned this approach in favour of a more 'experimental' sound even bordering electronic.
Munaf Rayani - guitar
Mark Smith - guitar
Michael James - electric guitar/bass
Chris Hrasky - drums
Bandcamp | Official Website
The band quickly gained a reputation for their live shows even amongst other established local bands such as Lift To Experience. They also garnered a small amount of media attention as a result of their second album Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, due to rumors linking it to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks - The album was released in late August 2001, with liner notes containing a picture of an airplane and the text "This Plane Will Crash Tomorrow".
"The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place" is their third full-length album (counting "How Strange, Innocence" as their debut, see below). It shows the band has developed their characteristic sound to its full potential and the album has been critically acclaimed.
Friday Night Lights, the football movie based on the book of the same name, featured a soundtrack consisting mostly of songs by Explosions in the Sky, both original (as found on the Friday Night Lights soundtrack ) and from earlier releases. They are also frequently played in the TV-series sharing the name.
21: The Rescue, an experimental work for which the band sat down for eight days creating a song for each. The clapping and finger snapping on "Day Eight" is a good example of a harmonic restructuring of their old sound.
How Strange, Innocence, the band's debut album, was finally remastered and re-released, making it accessible to a much larger audience. The first pressing consisted of only 300 CD-Rs that the band would later regret handing out as they felt the work to be naive, musically simple and not up to their standards. They have since learned to love, as well as hate, their debut as a showcase of their emotional range and emerging talent.
They recorded a live session in 1999 at KVRX Radio in Austin, Texas when they were still called 'Breaker Morant'. Early rawer versions of some How Strange songs were played plus the version of 'Remind Me as a Time of Day' they used for that record. The performance is also noted for featuring several songs whose original titles have been lost in time's memory hole that remain unreleased to this day. The band probably felt the songs were too juvenile and abandoned them for good, considering the way they felt about How Strange as a record itself. After exiting that live session, they saw fireworks in the sky and that is where the name 'Explosions in the Sky' came from.
On 20 Feb 2007, the band released, 'All Of A Sudden, I Miss Everyone'. The band's next album "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care" was released in April 2011. Their latest and most polarising record to date was called 'The Wilderness' from 2016. It marked their complete departure from their usual sound.
The band is considered nowadays as an entry-level point to post-rock for many people and they are often held responsible for the popularisation of (modern) post-rock and its subsequent flood of 'copycats' of a sound that has been done to 'exhaustion'. They are post-rock's poster boy band, perhaps even more so than Mogwai themselves. However, this should not remove the intrinsic value in their music or what they did for post-rock many years ago even though the quiet-loud-quiet structure/dynamic is anything they even hardly pioneered.
Their music simply added a then unseen emotional dimension to post-rock with exclusively instrumental songs. Although as with most of the original 'crescendocore' bands of yore, they have since abandoned this approach in favour of a more 'experimental' sound even bordering electronic.
Munaf Rayani - guitar
Mark Smith - guitar
Michael James - electric guitar/bass
Chris Hrasky - drums
Bandcamp | Official Website
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Explosions in the Sky Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Explosions in the Sky:
04. Have You Passed Thru This Night This great evil - where's it come from? How'd it…
4 / six days at the bottom of the ocean (Instrumental)…
A Song for Our Fathers [Instrumental]…
Have You Passed Through This N This great evil - where's it come from? How'd it…
Home (instrumental)…
The Birth and Death of the Day Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Anderson Bruford Wakeman And …
The Moon Is Down [Instrumental]…
The Only Monent We Were Alone (instrumental)…
Time Stops [Instrumental]…
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Pedro Pasqualini
Back in 2016 when this was released, I had some super bad anxiety attacks, my mind would flood with thoughts, I vomited almost every day for a whole month and barely ate anything. One of the few things that was able to calm me down back then was tuning into this video, looking at how shapes would change, listening to the build-up that felt like anxiety was being created and then destroyed. After a month I was able to start going to therapy, I resolved a lot of my problems, felt so much better.
I've tried avoiding things that gave me even a little bit of anxiety after that, and by avoiding everything I became depressed. Learning this, I've started embrassing my anxiety, becoming friends with it, and I would use it as a warning for when things were starting to get tough and to be careful about it.
A couple of years ago, after my most recent break-up, I've started feeling it slowly come back, and one hour ago I fully felt it again. I'm super scared of reliving that. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do, I don't have enough money to go to therapy again...
And then I turned into this video again, just like I've used to do. I've watched it, and while it did not take care of all my problems, it helped, once again, soften the blow. So I've just wanted to say thanks for making this song, recording this video, and making it available. Thanks for the good marketers that helped popularize the band enough for me to learn about it and start listening, for all the other amazing tracks that made me love this band so much to listen to one of your newer songs back in 2016, thanks for all of this.
Idk what I'm going to do but I'll probably be fine eventually. So yeah, thanks!
c1c666
Memories flood my mind to this in a way that's more overwhelming than the natural weight of thought and I want to just sleep. Because dreams are the only place where memories and now meet again.
Jennifer Catano
A lot of people are not liking this song.. I honestly think it's well done ❤️
Taylor David
Um, only 150 people out of nearly a million didn't like it 😅
Israel Davis
this songs amazing
Ryan Eyestone
The opening sample is from the scene in "Something Wicked This Way Comes" when the circus train arrives. One of my favorite movies. This band is consistently on-point with their use of samples.
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I love the hell out of this. I want to pick up any one of the sci-fi novels off my bookshelf and read them with this in the background. Explosions in Space.
Daniel ,dan' Thompson
“I love the heaven into this. Fuck the hell out of that Gregariousness.”
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Armando Ameer
@Holden Howard yea, I have been watching on InstaFlixxer for since november myself =)
Holden Howard
you probably dont care but if you guys are stoned like me during the covid times you can stream all of the latest series on InstaFlixxer. I've been watching with my girlfriend for the last few days :)
Arcturus
''I love the hell out of this'' this is what i say about this song.. also for ''first breath after coma'' ''your hand in mine'' ''murphy s ridge''... actually for all their songs :D