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Sep 15, 2023End should be the playbook for any artist who wants to balance giving fans what they want while growing their creative craft almost three decades in.
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Oct 19, 2023If Explosions in the Sky are drawing an era to a close, then End is a great way to do it. It takes elements of their past and hints at what the future could sound like. And that future sounds pretty good.
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Oct 5, 2023Explosions in the Sky have always been epic in their approach and execution. End is no different, even if this album leaves unclear what is ending or what might be just beginning.
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UncutSep 14, 2023The music is varied, best expressed by "Peace Or Quiet", which stretches their loud-quiet dynamic as far as it can go. [Oct 2023, p.28]
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Sep 14, 2023End feels like the soundtrack to life, placing you as the main character as the band crafts dynamic instrumentals that melt like gold and shine just as bright for their best album in recent memory.
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Sep 28, 2023End still brims with hope and promise, no more so than on "Moving On," with its beaming synths and stadium drums, and "Loved Ones," which builds atop an extended piano interlude. End might not be a breakthrough, but it doesn't have to be.
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Sep 18, 2023Often melodically startling, the work contained therein feels close to definitive – if you’ve ever thought to explore their work, but not had the chance, this is the perfect entry point.
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Classic Rock MagazineSep 15, 2023Predictable as this dynamic may be, EITS are never ponderous, never less than beautiful. [Oct 2023, p.84]
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Sep 14, 2023End incorporates a lot of the touches and techniques that made The Wilderness stand out in the group's discography, from rippling electronics to post-minimalist repetition.
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Sep 14, 2023End constitutes a worthy addition to Explosions in the Sky's discography, even if it doesn't really open a new chapter for them.
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Sep 18, 2023End is better than passable - I’ve heard far worse even in its genre. But, as things are, this record feels redundant. Explosions in the Sky, at this stage of their careers, need to give us a whole lot more in order to really deliver. Maybe that’s not fair, but let me tell ya somethin’, kid: life ain’t always fair.
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MojoSep 14, 2023A "rumination on life and death," which suitably chimed with earth's current 'end times' vibe, from sorrow to rage, elevated by post-rock's most luminescent guitars. [Oct 2023, p.88]