Album of the day (#1279): The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Music

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Today's album of the day

The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place by Explosions In The Sky (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2003.
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Overall rank: 432
Average rating: 80/100 (from 172 votes).

Tracks:
1. First Breath After Coma
2. The Only Moment We Were Alone
3. Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean
4. Memorial
5. Your Hand in Mine

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HazeyTwilight

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NickVolos in what album are you listening to thread wrote:

Every time I listen to this album, this thought comes to mind: "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place". You may dismiss this album as repetitive and boring. I find it quite the opposite: warm, alive, utterly emotional and melodic and overall compelling.

Nick basically summed up my exact thoughts on this album.
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Kiki

Explosions In The Sky always somehow make over the top completely boring. Can't get behind this.

alelsupreme

Awful.

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At first it's like "wooah my god this is so beautiful" then by the middle I'm thinking "m-hm nice crescendo guys, but you planning to go anywhere with all these?" then by the end it's like "OKAY I GET IT YOU WE ALL GET IT YOU LIKE BEING LOUD PLEASE BE MORE INTERESTING INSTEAD"
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IrishMusichead wrote:

Nick basically summed up my exact thoughts on this album.

lol

I was looking for that exchange in the forums, while you're were posting this...

Here it is and pretty much reflects how I feel about it. One thing to add is that when listening to this album one is better off to think that is listening to a single track running from the beginning to the end...

NickVolos wrote:

Every time I listen to this album, this thought comes to mind: "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place". You may dismiss this album as repetitive and boring. I find it quite the opposite: warm, alive, utterly emotional and melodic and overall compelling.

newbands1 wrote:

Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky never really did anything for me.Every time i listen to one of their albums i feel that I could be listening to Godspeed! or Sigur Ros instead.Care to explain why this album is able to stand on it's own when compared to albums of the same genre from before?

NickVolos wrote:

It is difficult to explain emotions with words. It is an album that I, personally, connect to emotionally; it could be the minor chord melodies, the music dynamics or it could be just the song titles bringing images into one's mind. Have you considered for instance how would it feel to take your first breath after a coma? I haven't and I hope never will. Yet the first song, "First Breath After Coma", sounds heavenly and I'd like to think this is what it would feel like. Have you lost anyone or something close to you? Maybe an ideal. If so, you could immediately connect with "Memorial" in a cathartic way. As for the closing, "Your Hand in Mine", I'd like to think that this is not a human hand but a divine one.

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This is my first major introduction to post rock, and damn is it one great entry way. Really, it's such a pristine experience. I can understand why some might think this is repetitive, but even if it is, the ideas that are here are used to great effect with great returns. This is a timeless album to me. I keep coming back to this, and I learn so much every time. I love it to death.

Track picks
1. First Breath After Coma
2. The Only Moment We Were Alone
5. Your Hand in Mine
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meruizh

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NickVolos wrote:

Quote:

It is difficult to explain emotions with words. It is an album that I, personally, connect to emotionally; it could be the minor chord melodies, the music dynamics or it could be just the song titles bringing images into one's mind. Have you considered for instance how would it feel to take your first breath after a coma? I haven't and I hope never will. Yet the first song, "First Breath After Coma", sounds heavenly and I'd like to think this is what it would feel like. Have you lost anyone or something close to you? Maybe an ideal. If so, you could immediately connect with "Memorial" in a cathartic way. As for the closing, "Your Hand in Mine", I'd like to think that this is not a human hand but a divine one.

Boy that's pretty much it. You Achieved Perfection.
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alelsupreme wrote:

At first it's like "wooah my god this is so beautiful" then by the middle I'm thinking "m-hm nice crescendo guys, but you planning to go anywhere with all these?" then by the end it's like "OKAY I GET IT YOU WE ALL GET IT YOU LIKE BEING LOUD PLEASE BE MORE INTERESTING INSTEAD"

Totally what I thought when I listened to it a few months ago. I need to revisit it I guess, but it was a pretty disgusting first listen tbh.

Precedent

Great post-rock, but there may be too many climaxes.

Skinny

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Does absolutely nothing for me. They've found a formula and they stick to it. I find it lazy and boring, to be honest. This is the sort of shit that put me off "post-rock" for so long.
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