TRR61
Release Date: 4 November 2003
"With this album, Explosions in the Sky have constructed a sweetly melodic, inspirationally hopeful album for a genre whose trademark is tragedy. For the astute listener, under the CD tray, amongst the illustrated scattered leaves, lies the answer to the album's desperately optimistic title; it reads "Because You Are Listening." It serves as a poignant parting sentiment from a band whose music is as dramatic as finding hope."- Hartley Goldstein, Pitchfork
"The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is perhaps the definitive post-rock album, its cascading notes and shimmering atmospherics soaring and plummeting over 45 minutes filled with euphoria, hope and heart-pausing drama" - Guitar
"If the idea of an album of instrumentals filled with titles such as First Breath After Coma sounds like heavy going, this Texan four-piece are here to make us think again. Their UK debut could have been sonically designed to make the world more beautiful."- The Guardian