Explosions In The Sky have just shared Moving On, the second single from End, their first album in seven years, set for release September 15 via Spunk Records/Virgin Music Australia.
Moving On delivers on the promise that End is the grandest Explosions in the Sky album to date – a latticework of ebullient guitar and keyboard melodies transmitted via a bold, widescreen production that crests into a cleansing aural catharsis. Taken in tandem with their previous single Ten Billion People an image emerges of the band’s current focus on melding the quiet restraint and crushing weight of their early recordings with the aural exploration and ornate experimentation of their later works.
The enigmatic album was inspired by darkness but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death. “Our starting point was the concept of an ending—death, or the end of a friendship or relationship,” state the band.
