I've heard alot of praise for these guys recently (especially from Kilman) so i thought i'd check them out. I downloaded "Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever" and my mind is blown. I haven't even made my way through the whole album yet and i love it. The first 2 songs are just kicking my ass!!! I had one question though regarding track names. The tracklisting on amazon.com is:

1. Greet Death
2. Yasmin the Light
3. Moon is Down
4. Have You Passed Through This Night
5. Poor Man's Memory
6. With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept

but the tracklist i got when i downloaded it was:

1. Help Us Stay Alive
2. Die
3. Greet Death
4. Yasmin the Light
5. Moon is Down
6. Plane Will Crash Tomorrow

Perhaps someone could clear this up for me?

The correct tracklisting, based off allmusic.com and what I downloaded, is

Greet Death 7:19
Yasmin the Light 7:03
The Moon Is Down 10:02
Have You Passed Through This Night? 7:19
A Poor Man's Memory 6:04
With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept 12:04

I know that they made an album before "Truth" that was never officialy released, but a few hundred copies were made. It's called "How Strange, Innocence" I believe. This might be what you have, actually. Or just a bad labeling/ordering job. Or an import/foreign copy.

Anyway, I just downloaded "Truth" a few days ago and havent digested it yet, but Ive had "Earth is not a cold dead place" for a month or two now, and it is brilliant. Especially "Your Hand In Mine". Wow.

I have this in MP3

Yeah I know Nate has it too. Am i correct? Did Mike accidentally download their first demo tape instead of their first album?

Explosions in the Sky are cool....between that record and Sigur Ros' ( ), I finally feel like the massive number of godspeed you black emperor (still the best, by the way) records in my collection are no longer lonely.

We played a set of Explosions songs for our battle of the bands. I'm still working on getting an MPEG of that up for download.

Those are the song lenghts that i have (sort of). Windows Media Player seems to be having a bit of difficulty as some songs will reach their supposed end time (ie the last song which WMP thinks ends at 8:30 but in actual fact plays much longer than that). My guess is that its a bad ripping job. I guess thats what you have to deal with when you don't actually pay for an album

Sigur Ros and GY!BE have just been kicking my ass lately, i'm glad i found them a companion.

If I were you, Id just re-download. But Im anal about having horrible versions of songs.

I'll probably just deal with it and when i buy it, i can re-rip it myself.

At first, I thought these guys were ok. Then I realized I was listening to an entire album of "Dee dee dee dee....dee dee dee dee, DEE DEE DEE DEE, DEE DEE DEE DEE, dee dee dee dee...". It's pretty much that one part from Echoes by Pink Floyd, combined with a little The Edge, and they've made a few albums from that one thing.

If it was one or two songs, I could deal with that. But dragging it out for this long is a blatant lack of creativity, I don't care if it's how the "Post Rock scene" does things.

To each his own, I suppose. But I cant see how you could listen to "First Breath After Coma" with the drum bit about 2/3 into it, and then listen to "Your Hand In Mine", especially the part when the lead guitar is playing rather quickly on a scale of sorts (Guitarists: its the part that focus on the 9th fret on G and B, I think) and think that they sound the same or lack creativity or beauty. "Your Hand In Mine" almost brings me to tears.

Or a song like Time Stops off their first album, you should be able to download it somewhere, the second half of it is amazing. Or a song liek the Moon is down, what a great second half again.

Mikef, you just had a bad download. That's not "How Strange, Innocence"; it looks like someone confused some of the liner notes with songs names, because "Help Us Stay Alive" and "This Play Will Crash Tomorrow" are quotes from the liner notes and not songs.




Sounds like you listened to The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place. I agree that it's a bit repetitive, but repetition is an important element for lots of music, and I still think EITS make beautiful music. Like someone else said, you might want to check the songs off How Strange, Innocence or Those Who Tell The Truth... for some different sounding songs.

Good album.
First one I heard by them, actually.

How Strange, Innocence
1) A Song For Our Fathers
2) Snow and Lights
3) Magic Hours
4) Look Into the Air
5) Glittering Blackness
6) Time Stops
7) Remember Me As a Time of Day

Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live
1) Greet Death
2) Yasmin the Light
3) The Moon is Down
4) Have You Passed Through This Night
5) A Poor Mans Memory
6) With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Wouls We Slept

The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
1) First Breath After A Coma
2) The Only Moment We're Alone
3) Six Days At the Bottom of the Ocean
4) Memorial
5) You're Hand in Mine

Did they do the music for The Thin Red Line?

Thats a negative, ghost writer.

They did do some songs for Friday Night Lights didn't they? As a side note is that movie any good? i havent seen it.

The did the entire soundtrack for that movie with exception of 3 songs. The movie is alright, but I only watched it for the music.