Explosions in the Sky-Live!

Explosions in the Sky brought a dynamic and highly charged show to 25,000 in Salt Lake City. After the release of their sixth album, Take Care Take Care Take Care, Explosions has been touring and playing at music festivals promoting their album. They have been long been acclaimed for their intense performances. Yet, they still keep a sense of intimacy while they are playing for thousands of fans. Explosions is originally a four-set band, with three guitarists and one drummer. For this tour though, they added a bass player. They are an entirely instrumental band, and have been since they started. One of the guitarists, Munaf Rayani, said that they thought about having lyrics for about a half-second before they decided they wanted just an instrumental band. Many of the bands songs are at least six or seven minutes long and some are over the double-digit mark. With these long and sweeping songs, it is easy to get lost in them. They take you for a journey and you are almost exhausted after. The whole show, Munaf Rayani only spoke twice for the band; at the beginning, and at the end. There were no long pauses between songs, just and hour and fifteen minutes of sonic bliss. Because they played one song right after the next, every song seemed like a chapter in their story that they were sharing with you. There an unbelievable and inventive band that plays every song with an incredible amount of passion and bring this emotion with every note.