BELLACD135
Release Date: 20 February 2007
"As always, elongated guitar shapes contort through various stages of dim shimmer and blinding incandescence. As always, you could fit the esoteric instrumentation through the eye of a needle. As always, the action unfolds with the adrenaline-rationing precision of a big-budget action flick, with climaxes that feel at once thrilling and safe, constrained by the four borders of a figurative screen." - Pitchfork
"After reshaping the post-rock territory with their last album, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, Explosions in the Sky are staking their claim to Mogwai's dark kingdom with an album that, despite being only six songs long, takes prisoner of your head and your heart." - The Guardian
"Melodies are more pervasive, nuanced layers of sound are both atmospheric and enveloping and noodling is at an all-time low." - Punknews