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Explosions in the Sky | Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever

This one will mess with your heart and soul.
CD, V2/V2

Tekst: Maureen Munnik

Publicatiedatum: 22 februari 2002

Being a person who's always contemplating how things got started (being at the right place at the right time and how people who were meant for each other meet), I am certainly grateful for these four guys deciding to move to Austin, Texas. How one of them puts up a flyer saying: "Wanted: sad, triumphant rock band." Resulting in the birth of Explosions In The Sky in 1999.

Guitars and drums: That's all it takes to totally blow me away, and that's what they do best. It's literally explosions you hear, great outbursts of loud guitars and heavy drums, creating a wall of noise, which makes all of your hairs stand up. A wall you know you will not be able to climb, so you just sit there, unable to move. There are flashes of painful red, poppy pink, and bright yellow appearing before your eyes, making you dizzy with curiosity as to what's next. Then the wall crumbles into little pebbles you can kick with your feet, accompanied by one single delightful guitar to tickle your every nerve.The colours become more quiet; soothing blue and calm green make you feel you can breath again. The whole 50 minutes that this album is long it's like this, swerving from one climax to the other. When you finally get around to drinking your cup of tea, you find that it has gone cold. Just sitting there on the table, forgotten.

The first few times I listened to this album it was like that. All of my senses completely tired from experiencing scintillating music. People who go for Godspeed YBE!, Mogwai, or Unwound's 'Leaves Turn Inside You' will definitely dig this. Where Godspeed let you take a breather once in a while by using voices and sounds recorded on the streets, Explosions In The Sky don't let you go. The more I listen to it the more I grow fond of this album, but at least I can now manage to drink my tea while it's hot! Pondering about how one day I'll have to make a film (undoubtedly starring Vincent Gallo) about us poor sods who are stuck in a country where it's autumn all year round. Just so I can use 'Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die...' as a soundtrack. Because that's what it sounds like: a soundtrack, with every song telling us a different story.

'Greet Death' sets the mood, and you won't get away unharmed! 'Yasmin The Light' literally lets you hear the explosions through the distorted guitars, while 'The Moon Is Down' gives me a feeling of homesickness for a place I've never even been to. Then a voice comes (the only one on the album): 'Have You Passed Through This Night?' Wondering who's killing us, "mocking us with the sight of what we might have known," and when the shot rings out you are right there with him in the trenches. 'A Poor Man's Memory' has you marching with the soldiers, the smell of blood and fear hanging in the air. What's left of us is goin' home. On 'With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept' you feel the last two minutes of the album beaming with hope, as you walk away with all limbs and bodily functions intact, but with the music under your skin forever.

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