Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky lives in the middle ground — 16 moderate songs that balance intensity with control. 2 quiet anchors and 12 songs where they let go completely.

7.9
Avg Intensity
30
Songs Decoded
0
Fan Stories

The songs that hit hardest

A Song for Our Fathers intense
layered texture · mild changes · DR 9 · 2000
Snow and Lights intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2000
Greet Death intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2001
With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2001
Memorial intense
layered texture · extreme changes · DR 9 · 2003
The Only Moment We Were Alone intense
complex texture · frequent changes · DR 9 · 2003
Your Hand in Mine intense
complex texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2003
Catastrophe and the Cure intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2007
It's Natural to Be Afraid intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2007
Last Known Surroundings intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 9 · 2011
Logic of a Dream intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2016
Tangle Formations intense
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2016

The controlled burn

Glittering Blackness moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 2000
Have You Passed Through This Night? moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 2001
The Moon Is Down moderate
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2001
Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 2003
Day Six moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 2005
So Long, Lonesome moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 2007
The Birth and Death of the Day moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 2007
Welcome, Ghosts moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 2007
Human Qualities moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 2011
Let Me Back In moderate
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2011
Postcard From 1952 moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 2011
Trembling Hands moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 2011
Colors in Space moderate
layered texture · moderate changes · DR 8 · 2016
Disintegration Anxiety moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 6 · 2016
Infinite Orbit moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 8 · 2016
The Ecstatics moderate
layered texture · mild changes · DR 7 · 2016

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