The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
by Explosions In The Sky

From imnotanotter 03/04/2013 00:11 | #66940 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Not the best from the genre I've heard. Yet it somehow is indefinitely my favorite album of all time.

From jqmusiclove 09/15/2013 13:48 | #85995 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

This is one of my favourite albums of the 00's. Truly a beautiful and unique experience to listen to from beginning to end. EITS are one of the most underrated bands of our time.

Definitely the most predictable Post-Rock album I've ever encountered. The most boring and conventional album of the genre yet... But still there were a lightness to it which I quite liked, with stuff like Godspeed, Tortoise and Do Make Say Think you need to be kind of prepared and fully invested when listening. With Explosions in the Sky you can just relax.
This is like post-rock for dummies, but not bad by any means.

I understand criticisms of this record, especially as a precursor to the unfortunate plateau Explosions in the Sky faces with their more recent work (exemplative of the greater state of post-rock as a whole). It follows a rather typical format of instruments building upon each other until a climax is reached, at which point it settles down.

I don't think people who approach it that mechanically are really listening to this record correctly, however. The timbre of the sounds produced range from triumphant, to mournful, to somewhat ominous, especially in later tracks on the record. The opener and the closer are the best points found on this album, with some of the overlaying melodies being downright catchy, which is a trait not usually emphasized in post-rock music.

A lot of my love for this album comes from it being one of the first vinyl records I ever bought. It is a concept album about the value of importance, and your significance despite the universe telling you that you don't matter. Engraved on Side D on the vinyl edition is no music, just engravings of birds accompanying the words 'because you are listening, because you are breathing, the earth is not a cold, dead place'

From NickVolos TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/17/2014 17:13 | #106592 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Candy for the ears. Music does not have to be complex to be likable...