Following Dirty Three’s excellent All Tomorrow’s Parties festival last year we at Bella Union were naturally very pleased when another of our acts were invited to curate the event again this year… and what a stellar and eclectic line-up EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY have assembled for next week’s festival… Highlights amongst the many brilliant acts performing include the likes of DINOSAUR JR, IRON AND WINE, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, BATTLES, AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, DE LA SOUL, GHOSTFACE KILLAH, FOUR TET, THE NATIONAL, SILVER JEWS, OKKERVIL RIVER… as well as their Bella Union
label-mates BEACH HOUSE and of course headliners EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY themselves… all quality stuff…
All Tomorrows Parties takes place at Butlins in Minehead on 16th – 18th May…
Explosions In The Sky are now widely recognised as the leading / most influential instrumental-rock band of the past few years, their stunning soundscapes winning them legions of fanatical fans, and selling over half a million albums worldwide in the process…
Press acclaim for “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone”, EITS’s fourth album, released in February last year…
“The most heart-wrenching pieces of music that this reviewer has heard in a long time… impossibly beautiful… If you buy just one instrumental album this year make it this: your life will be a whole lot better for it.”
Rock Sound – 9/10 (Album of the Month)
“Takes prisoner of your head and your heart… The world is theirs for the taking”
The Guardian – 4 stars ****
“a staggering piece of sonic theatre which lives up to their name by dint of it’s shimmering guitars and sabre-toothed noise… Inspired”
OMM – 4 stars ****
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"In terms of pure beauty and resonance, these Explosions are breathtaking."
MOJO - 4 Stars ****
“one of the most beautiful releases of the year”
Evening Standard – 4 stars ****
“These eloquent instrumentals create highly emotional, blissful melancholia with swooning breakdowns and punches that appear from nowhere”
Metro – 4 stars ****
“The fuel for these six surging hymnals is a romantic urge to find beauty… They speak post-rock’s language of volume and stealth with furious potency”
The Independent – 4 stars ****
“All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone’ is a statement of intent of truly epic proportions. It’s everything good music should be: inspiring, thoughtful, moving and classy.”
The Fly – 4 Stars ****
“Spellbinding instrumental cacophonies… Explosions in the Sky are too grand for this cosmos”
NME – 8/10
“Glorious meteor showers of noise… some of the most vital and rewarding music you’ll hear all year”
The Sun – 5 stars *****
“emotionally intense instrumentals… moodily romantic and powerful”
WORD
“Their vast, quasi-classical-cum-post-rock symphonies possess a dramatic, crystalline beauty… Majestic”
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