Explosions in the Sky

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29, Explosions in the Sky.

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28, Gridlink, Orphan.

Quaid that would be an incredible bit that would be such a good bit uh my next two they're all pretty obvious like these are probably the three you could have guessed my next one is her brook speech and miracle yeah it's one of the most incredible speeches regardless of genre a movie or television it's just it gets me fired up every time and i want to go beat the shit out of a russian you can't help it And then my last one is more general because there's 12 million of these throughout this show.

It's any Coach Eric Taylor speech set to explosions in the sky.

Yeah.

They all give me chills.

It doesn't even have to be about football.

It doesn't have to be a lot.

Like, he could do a speech about his grocery list, but if he did it in the Kyle Chandler cadence with explosions in the sky playing in the background, I'm going to get chills.

I just can't help it.

The guys talk about the musical connections that bind them together and the bands that influenced Go Forward in Flames, how the band structured their songs and soundscapes on Liminal Spaces, the story behind the album artwork, and more.

If you're a post-rock fan in the vein of Early Explosions in the Sky and Malgwai, this is a band to check out for sure.

I love Liminal Spaces, and it was a no-brainer to share this band with you, the podcast listener, as soon as I heard the album.

Thanks so much for checking out this episode of Ask the Story Grows.

Well, yeah, we were in a band called Odelia for like 20 plus years, you know, similar kind of thing.

But we were never like a big touring band or anything like that.

You know, we got to open for a couple of good bands like Explosions in the Sky and Tristezza and stuff like that.

But, you know, we never had the momentum to really... you know to live off of making music so

The whole thing is quite warm and shimmery post-rock, I would say.

And a little bit more reminiscent of the earlier days of when Explosions in the Sky and Sigur Rós were just a bit more warming rather than riff-based, you know?

Yeah, I was going to say the...

the Sigur Rós comparison is an interesting one to bring up.

This is basically what you love about post-rock.

If you are a fan of Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, all of the grandfathers of the genre, so to speak, Caspian delivers it to you in a very real way.

Their band, you know, instrumental, it is loud, it's quiet, it's everything personally.

I've loved Caspian for many years, and this record just continues to build on their amazingness, and I think this record could potentially be my favorite of theirs.

... bands that push in that cinematic space.

You know, there's bands like Explosions in the Sky as well.

Um, but, uh, yeah, I think it's probably between Linkin Park and Muse if I'm sort of-

Okay

So we're, we're way past Meet Me in the Bathroom era.

I don't even know what was going on, because I, I was listening to, like, all post-rock at the time, like Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai.

Mm-hmm.

That was, like, I, I was...

Every day I share a new artist with my boys.

Today is Explosions in the Sky.

Do you remember Explosions in the Sky? They were the music from Friday Night Lights.

They're an American post-rock band formed in Austin, Texas in 1999, which will be perfect for our guest coming up and some of the stuff we're gonna talk about.

Uh, they do that intro song from Friday Night Lights, "Your Hand in Mine" or "From West Texas." It's really good stuff.

I'm hoping he'll rejoin us again soon.

He's also got, uh, the Mosquito Bowl coming up, which I'm hoping he will come talk to us about, speaking of football.

But Explosions in the Sky is our artist of the day, and I'm gonna bring you the five Is I bring you in every single show that are like their own explosions in the sky: independence, integrity, information, inspiration, and especially on Friday, impact.

I do tend to get more into my instrumental bag at, around this time of year.

Like, I like listening to things like Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai and even Lankum, the Irish band who are wonderful.

They're not necessarily instrumental, but they do make these sweeping, kind of epic statements in that regard.

And then, yeah, in the summer, I mean, again, like I say, I like, like, I think of the kind of acts that would be touring around this time, because that's another thing, right? Like, people have kind of said, like, Spotify put out a bunch of data this summer and said that actually, not just the weather, not just the seasons, not just your calendar, but things that were happening in the world were massively influencing what people were listening to.