All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone [Import, Limited Edition]

Explosions in the Sky | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 19, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Limited Edition
• Label: Bella Union
• ASIN: B000M5B6GK
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #430,397 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Birth and Death of the Day

2. Welcome, Ghosts

3. It's Natural to Be Afraid

4. What Do You Go Home To?

5. Catastrophe and the Cure

6. So Long, Lonesome

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Artist who's paintbrush is sound, March 13, 2007

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Luke A. Smucker "Prvt. Joker" (Chicago,IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (Audio CD)

I'm listening to this Album for the first time after reading raving reviews about the band in both Spin and Rolling Stone magazine and wondering just what an instrumental rock band would sound like. A lot of people say good music isn't coming out anymore but I think this album is proof that if you're willing to look, good music is still being made.

I've often wondered what the great composers of the past would think of our music today and I can safely say I think they would easily understand and enjoy this group of musicians.

There are no lyrics but that doesn't mean there is no melody. This is people creating music in its purist form. If the music is this good I can only imagine that if there were words, they would be the answers to the meaning of life itself. As it is, don't be surprised if listening to this album puts you into another level of consciousness that you rarely enter.

Thank you Explosions In The Sky for not being afraid to break the mold and make your own way. With this album, you have inspired me to do the same.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All of a sudden I don't miss vocals..., May 17, 2007

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tacomaboy (tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (Audio CD)

The dynamics of these compositions are such that you can listen to the album in its entirety and not realize until it is over that any type of vocalization is completely absent from the songs...Yet in every piece the music somehow speaks to you as though the instruments were sounding out words that would otherwise be impossible to utter through the use of human vocal chords.
The band uses distorted guitar sounds, feedback, various background percussion, beautiful piano melodies, high pitched guitar plucking, shredding power chords, and mixes it all together with climactic build-ups and tempo changes to tell a story through beautifully arranged soundscapes. While it seems that people classify this type of music as 'post-rock' I think that term can be confusing and misleading. This album rocks a lot more than a band like Sigur Ros and is more technical than a band like Pelican - some of the beats are so uptempo and the twin guitar leads so catchy that you can't help but sometimes get into the groove. The progressive nature of the song structures put these guys in a class of their own.

RECOMMENDATION: Unless you are a diehard fan then save yourself money and stick with the original album.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hope for Everyone, February 27, 2007

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Gift Card Recipient "rotary lloyd" (Kent, Washington USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (Audio CD)

I'm going to try my very best to touch on and characterize all that I've taken from this album.

But let it be known that the awe that it creates is too much for words (so maybe it's appropriate that the only appearance of words in this album is through the titles of songs, the album, or through the liner notes alone).

The album starts off with "The Birth and Death of the Day." This song comes in full force, with a distant and distorted tone paired with chords that seem to clear their throats at the beginning of the day that's described within the song.

And at this, the sun throws itself over mountains as if it were blinding through power (as light often does at the beginning of our mornings). As afternoon comes, the song seems to settle with comfort as one becomes more used to the time within the day. And as the day comes close to a close, the pace starts to quicken again with a sense of clarity that our days are not forever.

That same passion is exerted near the sun settles for sleep.

A flutter of notes carries you through a now darkened environment, and "Welcome, Ghosts" and a feeling of solitude, if you will.

Never have I heard so much said without the use of words (with of course, the exception of the words written throughout the album art).

The feeling of solitude is masterfully described, as they had hoped for, within the music and the images.

(As they also put forward romantic undertones in "The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place," or the feelings associated with war in "Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever," or the feeling of innocence and sincerity put forth in "How Strange, Innocence.")

I took three buses from Kent, Washington into Seattle, Washington (a four-hour trip both there and back) just to get to Easy Street Records to purchase the limited-edition copy of this album the day it was released (Feb. 20, 2007).

It was on sale for only $8.99, so I bought another copy for my friend.

Something I'll always remember.

And if music can make me do this, than I think that's a very powerful statement indeed.

This is album is indefinitely a work of art.

For me, it's their most mature piece of work, and their most meaningful portrayal of life.

It's also their first try and incorporating piano in atmosphere. Which, might I add, is very successful. It is something very new for them, but something that fits.

A fresh change within their music, but still to the sound that they're known to create.

The only example I can think of this use of piano would be when they recorded the eight tracks that they did for Temporary Residence Ltd. on "The Rescue." It was recorded in 2005 over the course of eight days (each track in a day) and was mostly written on the spot of each day.

(This album can be downloaded in its entirety from the Explosions In The Sky website.)

There was piano featured on several tracks throughout that album.

But only on this album was it solidified and made their own.

The experimentation must've helped some.

There's a little something for everyone in this album.

And at certain points, you'll find yourself thinking of people you've known and know.

But don't let this idea of solitude scare you off because you fear the depression.

It's not depressing.

In fact, it's very hopeful.

And like the most satisfying of movies or stories, it has a good ending.

"So Long, Lonesome."