Artist: Explosions In The Sky
Album: How Strange, Innocence
Released: Jan 2000
Label: Temporary Residence Limited
Genre: instrumental post-rock
Purchase date: 7 Sep 2010
Format: mp3 files
Source: eMusic
How Strange, Innocence is the first album by this instrumental post-rock band from Texas. Explosions In The Sky is probably best known for the soundtrack to the 2004 film Friday Night Lights and for much of the incidental music for the TV show of the same name. I've been a fan for a few years now, and when this album popped up in my "recommended" list on eMusic, I decided to give it a try.
The band is known for painting aural pictures with cinematic grandeur, using tempo changes, dynamic changes, and mood shifts to great effect. While not as well-executed as the band will do in subsequent recordings, the music on this album is vivid, exhilarating, and can transport your imagination to other places. Never poppy, this is music that pulls you in.
It's not this band's best record, but I still recommend it.
Rating: B
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