Just in time for Valentine’s, everybody’s favourite creepy pervert indie filmmaker is looking for a date. With you. Well, that, and he wants to sell you his album.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it now: God bless YouTube. I ordered the CD online before the video was even done.
“Let’s be hillbillies and pretend we’re stupid! Who wants to sleep with smart people all the time, anyway?”
Okay, back to my paper.
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According to legend, Explosions in the Sky were signed when fellow post-rockers American Analog Set listened to half their demo and submitted it to their label with a note reading “This totally fucking destroys!” Turns out they do.
I’ve been listening to Explosions in the Sky on a near-daily basis for months now, and to my continued surprise, I’m not remotely sick of them. They do jammy instrumental post-rock in the vein of Mogwai or Tortoise, but their music is a more haunting and delicate, with bits of goth and heavy metal for good measure. In fact, somehow these four guys from Texas make music that perfectly matches my feelings about Vancouver winter — moody and vast and cooly beautiful. The perfect musical accompaniment to taking the early-morning bus across the Granville bridge and seeing the city of glass dwarfed by snow-topped mountains and endless grey clouds and cold black ocean.
They have a free album, The Rescue which you can download from their site, and a new album coming out in February. You should probably check ’em out. I can’t guarantee you’ll love their stuff as much as I do, but you just might, and wouldn’t that be grand?
The song tells the tale of a man who travels in time to save mankind, but in the process is turned to steel, to an iron man (although iron is not the same as steel and the song also states that his boots are made of lead). This form leaves him in a vegetative state where it is unclear, if he is even still alive. It is presumed that he’s dead, so everyone ungratefully just leaves him there, however Iron man is still alive. Lying there in his metal shell he plans vengance on the people who don’t acknowledge his heroism. Finally the time comes, Iron man lives again, and alone he goes on a dreadful rampage killing everyone.
Needless to say, there’s a wikipedia article. “The equation in the background of the chorus is Schrödinger’s wave equation for the hydrogen atom; however, there is an error in that Planck’s constant is displayed in place of Dirac’s constant.”
According to legend, Explosions in the Sky were signed when fellow post-rockers American Analog Set listened to half their demo and submitted it to their label with a note reading “This totally fucking destroys!” Turns out they do.