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Explosions in the Sky take a huge leap forward in confidence and compositional acumen for `Those Who Tell The Truth...', their second album. The whole CD revels in contrasts between pounding rock guitars and delicate melody. The opening track, `Greet Death' is the perfect example. The slightest of intros bursts to life with an exhilarating guitar onslaught before shifting into a beautiful, restrained melody. It then builds to a climax of sweeping guitar passages. `Yasmin the Light' builds on a heartbeat percussion and gossamer-thread melody before exploding into life and back again. `Moon Is Down's guitars wash in waves, anchored by a military-type drum pattern and build to a crescendo in a more controlled way. The quality just keeps coming; the band sustains a very high level of playing, and most importantly variety, throughout (something which is a bit lacking in later releases). `Have You Passed Through the Night' even features an atmospheric spoken word sample as an intro, the only vocals Explosions have used on any of their records. `With Tired Eyes...' is a fitting finale - so beautiful and powerful. `Those Who Tell the Truth..' is a thrilling, challenging and consistently interesting record. In my opinion it is the band's finest and also ranks as one of the best in the Post-Rock genre. If you like carefully crafted, melodic music this CD is recommended without hesitation.Read full review
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