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Firerockets at Night

Explo­sions in the Sky!

The latest instal­ment in a semi-reg­u­lar Wel­ling­tonista series on the thriv­ing loc­al tour­ing cir­cuit for inter­na­tion­al bands sees the instru­ment­al rock good­ness of Explo­sions in the Sky hit­ting Wel­ling­ton for the first time tomor­row night, bring­ing their fire­crack­er of a live set to the San Fran Bath­house.

Praised for the cine­mat­ic grandeur of their albums and the intens­ity of their live shows, the Tex­ans have come a long way since their incep­tion as a post-rock four-piece in 1999. The band has also been appoin­ted as the cur­at­ors for the 2008 All Tomorrow’s Parties fest­iv­al line-up.

Fus­ing bit­ter­sweet gui­tar melod­ies with crash­ing bouts of noise, Explo­sions in the Sky have garnered a strong fol­low­ing among fans and crit­ics alike, with Tiny Mix Tapes labelling them “the only instru­ment­al post-rock band that mat­ter­s”. Rolling Stone com­pared their most recent album, All Of A Sud­den I Miss Every­one, to the music of the Kronos Quar­tet, but with “big amps and John Bon­ham in the back”, and inter­net giant Pitch­fork Media touted 2003’s The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place as “the per­fect test­a­ment to art-rock mastery.”

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