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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MidwestEmoBoy
thank you for sharing your story. imagining you carry your little sister while this song playing and calming her down is truly heartwarming.
wish you the best! continue being a very kind human!
I can share you my story if you want to read it continue, if not, then just dont. feel free to read.
I try to keep it short : When I was living isolated and depressed from 19 to 22 y.o. I felt like a failure and had suicidal thoughts each day. It was hell for me. Three years and I still kept going and today I have absolutely no idea how I did it because everything was draining my life energy. Even making coffee was too much. Depression is so hard to overcome but I did it. Now I am 24, turning 25 in 3 weeks and the last couple of years I evolved so much, my personality has become more mature and I feel way stronger than I was. Hitting rock bottom was a good life lesson for me. Now I am working full time and doing things I really like to do. I am enjoying life.
I felt truly free after depression and it was like I am breathing the fresh air for the first time in my life. Then i realized How miserable i must have been living and doing. Sometimes I even share a tear when I am doing super fine because I wasnt doing fine for so long, even in my youth, I was dealing constantly with depressive episodes. So after defeating it, I am finally free. A little too late in my opinion but it is okay. It was age 23, the first time I felt full redemption.
And there is a certain song that calmed me down and gave me positive vibes and energy. Everytime I hear it, I do remember those times where I was sitting at home wishing to die but then seeing myself here and now, in the future. Changed and healthy. Today nothing can stop me. I think this is growing up and being able to bear any pain that is to come on my way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB9_9_TpdPo
Bifty Fraubit
A girl I fell inlove with growing up showed me this song it was on a mix cd and she never knew what the song was called or even the band name, someone else made the cd for her but I remembered this song always and when I first heard back in 2008 it hit me hard like I've never heard this song before and now that I've heard it's stuck in me forever and it was always great to listen to it. I used to carry my little sister in my arms and put this on everytime she was upset and it would calm her down the face she had was the exact one I did everytime I heard this which was of confusion and amazement. Confused at how band could make this and amazed that they did make this. My little sisters a lot older now but I wonder if she thinks about that time that I held her and put this on. Sometimes I wonder if my ex still listens to this and thinks about me sometimes I listen to this and think about her and everything we went through. I found the band name and song 8 years later and and two years after we left each other and I'll never stop listening to it and I'll never stop thinking about her.
MidwestEmoBoy
thank you for sharing your story. imagining you carry your little sister while this song playing and calming her down is truly heartwarming.
wish you the best! continue being a very kind human!
I can share you my story if you want to read it continue, if not, then just dont. feel free to read.
I try to keep it short : When I was living isolated and depressed from 19 to 22 y.o. I felt like a failure and had suicidal thoughts each day. It was hell for me. Three years and I still kept going and today I have absolutely no idea how I did it because everything was draining my life energy. Even making coffee was too much. Depression is so hard to overcome but I did it. Now I am 24, turning 25 in 3 weeks and the last couple of years I evolved so much, my personality has become more mature and I feel way stronger than I was. Hitting rock bottom was a good life lesson for me. Now I am working full time and doing things I really like to do. I am enjoying life.
I felt truly free after depression and it was like I am breathing the fresh air for the first time in my life. Then i realized How miserable i must have been living and doing. Sometimes I even share a tear when I am doing super fine because I wasnt doing fine for so long, even in my youth, I was dealing constantly with depressive episodes. So after defeating it, I am finally free. A little too late in my opinion but it is okay. It was age 23, the first time I felt full redemption.
And there is a certain song that calmed me down and gave me positive vibes and energy. Everytime I hear it, I do remember those times where I was sitting at home wishing to die but then seeing myself here and now, in the future. Changed and healthy. Today nothing can stop me. I think this is growing up and being able to bear any pain that is to come on my way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB9_9_TpdPo
bobithasmitherson
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard in my life.
promisonl
So beautiful. This is the kind of music that has the power to make you want to be a better person. Even if there isn't anything particularly wrong with you. We can always improve and go out of our way to be kind. Very calming music, I love it
gh0stly1777
Love always gives back exchange hate with love and sooner or later it'll catch on the whole world will give love and receive love,
Rockabilly lou
That's cause this is what love sounds like. And anything is possible with love.
Gabe Goldstein
I completely agree. much love
Guilherme Kano
man, this is great stuff. when i listen to it, it makes me feel kinda sad and happy at the same time...
B0neyKingofN0where
Bliss in it's raw, musical form. I listen to this, and all of my problems float away.
山下オリバー
Mmm this is very nostalgic for me. :) Beautiful piece, I remember hearing it yeaaaars ago as a much younger kid and loving it to pieces.