The no singing, but some dancing edition

Song: With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
Artist: Explosions in the Sky
Source: Live
Day: 3/29/07

Two songs into their set, Explosions in the Sky play the song I really want to hear and they play it with their characteristic awesomeness: the performance varies from epic beauty to grap-you-and-shake-you intensity, with enough space and savvy to allow the two to coexist in a natural way. The show is all gravy after that.


Song: Taken
Artist: Eluvium
Sources: Talk Amongst the Trees
Day: 4/1/07

This song falls somewhere between guitar driven post-rock and Eno's Discrete Music. I was lucky enough to see him do this live, opening for Explosions in the Sky. It was just him and a delay device slowly building a world of sonic wonder as the parts looped back on themselves. The recorded version is more mellow but no less amazing.


Song: The Universe!
Artist: Do Make Say Think
Source: You, You're a History in Rust
Day: 4/3/07

Do Make Say Think finally rock out. Not too surprisingly it sounds a bit like "kc Accidental" by Broken Social Scene (several DMSTers are in BSS and the song "kc accidental" shares its name with another DMST/BSS side project). All the great spatial/texural qualities of DSMT with a beat I can jump up and down to. Perfect. Especially good following the gentle "A With Living" that procedes it on the album.