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• Artist: Explosions In The Sky
• Album: How Strange, Innocence
• Label: Temporary Residence
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-07-06

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Originally recorded in 2000 in only two days, and released on cassette, this is a needed reissue that highlights this band's evolution. Poignant without being saccharine, edgy and daring without sounding like yet another Knitting Factory house band, these instrumentalists from Midland, Texas have their eyes on their own prize. Now semi-famous, after two big-time releases and involvement in a Billy Bob Thornton movie, Strange is a spiffed up trip back to where it all began. Impossibly gorgeous and hermetic, "Song for our fathers", "Snow and Lights", "Glittering Blackness" actually, everyone of the seven tracks here is its own little world, profound and curious, like meditations while driving at night. Stunning to remember this as a first record, and comforting to know they are still at it and driving further into the deep.

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