Explosions In The Sky To Celebrate 20th Anniversary With Deluxe Reissues And Tour Dates
Thursday, 04 July 2019
Written by Jon Stickler
Explosions In The Sky will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a series of reissues and tour dates in February.
The reissue project will see the Texas post-rock group re-release special editions of their debut album 'How Strange, Innocence' and rare record 'The Rescue' on vinyl for the first time on August 16. They said:
"'How Strange, Innocence' was our first attempt at an album. We recorded it in January 2000 in Austin: recording took two days, mixing one day, mastering one day. Altogether we pressed 300 CD-R copies of this album... We had been a band about seven months when we recorded these songs.
"A lot of feelings (excitement/confusion/glimpses of visions/waking dreams/inability to play instruments) went into this record, but we didn't quite know what to do with those feelings, none of us had even really been in a studio before, and it shows in the recording, the songs show it, too - it's a young record.
"There are no tricks in it. There's a lightness in a few of the songs that we probably won't reach again. It sounds strange to say that instrumental songs are about something, but to us these songs were/are about such things as a couple walking through the park on a winter day, a child playing on 70's shag carpet, the story of a boy hero leading a revolution against the tyranny of the coal mines. We've had a bit of a love/embarrassment relationship with the record. At certain points along the way several of us wanted to buy back all the copies and burn them.
"Listening now to this album, it almost seems like a different band composed of four different people. We finally feel okay in re-releasing it, probably because we've now made a couple of records that are recorded better and that are closer to our visions for them. Anyway, we truly appreciate anyone who is interested and listening. Thank you."
As part of the celebrations behind the milestone, the band have also confirmed a series of shows for February 2020, with stops planned in Bexhill, Glasgow, Dublin, Manchester, and London, where they'll play Hammersmith's Eventim Apollo on February 15. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on July 10.
Explosions In The Sky Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue February 11 2020 - BEXHILL ON SEA De La Warr Pavilion
Wed February 12 2020 - GLASGOW Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Thu February 13 2020 - DUBLIN Vicar Street
Fri February 14 2020 - MANCHESTER Albert Hall
Sat February 15 2020 - LONDON Eventim Apollo
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