explosions in the sky
all of a sudden i miss everyone
(bella union)
8/10
Post-rock. You're welcome to dismiss it as prog for the nineties, but be honest: how far would your favourite band get without the singer along to moan about his ex-girlfriend? Explosions In The Sky, meanwhile, wield a mighty emotional hammer without uttering a single word. These four Texans claim that, rather than consciously imitating Mogwai or Godspeed! You Black Emperor, they simply wanted to start a rock band, and it just happened that none of them could hold a note: but their rare talent would have been wasted on three-minute pop songs.
On All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone, their strict devotion to guitar, bass and drums is eased just a little with some luminous echoing piano on What Do You Go Home To? and So Long, Lonesome. But this mostly still treads the same windswept terrority as their previous four albums: sparse, plangent guitar lines that swell slowly into towering, radiant crescendoes. The thirteen-minute It's Natural To Be Afraid, their longest track ever, shows the scope of their ambition: less doomy and more optimistic than the post-rock old guard, it evokes a whole landscape of wonders.
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