The Wilderness

Beautiful and epic as always

I've held off writing a review for several months, hoping that the album would grow on me. It just hasn't. Long time EITS fan. Listening to The Wilderness, it's easy to forget that you're listening to EITS and think you mistakenly put on a Moby album. It's not that there aren't some good songs on here (Tangle Formations chief among them) there's just nothing that draws me back again and again like all of the other albums. Maybe it's just too much of a departure from the previous albums.

I have a couple albums by Explosion in the Sky and I can't recall them using so much percussion or drums! It takes away from the rest of the music. Don't get me wrong I like drums just not so much or as the main part of the of the album.

I love this group and have for a really long time. These guys could have put out another great typical post rock record, but they went so much further. This blends in the amazing atmosphere of The earth is not a cold dead place, mixes it with the creativity of The rescue, and looks forward to uncharted territory. I can't stop listening to it and each time I do, I am amazed by the arrangements and production. I even went out and bought it on vinyl so I could lay back in my bed with the lights low and just feel this album. Hands down their best yet.

Amazing album. I’ve always loved Explosions in the Sky, and was content with my various playlists of their work - but this was an incredible surprise. As with any previous descriptions of their sound, the complexities of emotion and instrumental bliss - words can not adequately describe how good this music is. Btw, I’ve not ever written another review of an album - but this one. I just couldn’t help it. It’s that good!

I have always Loved Explosions In The Sky. I remember the first time I started listen to them in 2005. They were so different from anything else I have ever heard. Over the years they came out with some pretty cool stuff, but with their latest album “the Wilderness” it brings me back to the place I was, when I first fell in love with their music. Listen to their songs on this album really sets the bar at a new height for experimental ambiance with intentional flairs of seamless voicing. Great job to all of you who put this Album into reality. Blessings! and Thank you!

The songs in their older albums had more structure and built up to something, this album is more ambiguous noise that I think lacks a purpose without that climactic ending that Explosions songs normally deliver. Still enjoyable, however, just not what I have come to expect from them.

The over the top crescendos may not be as highlighted, but I appreciate how they widened their "breadth of sound." True growth on this album; they clearly learned a lot on their soundtrack work over the years.

This album is incredible. It's one of those albums that you play, enjoy every single song so much that your air playing every instrument in a crowded starbucks and not give a single care. EITS puts their heart and soul into their music, it's absolutely evident in their music, especially this album. Real talent and love for music that does not need words to evoke such emotion. I'm an EITS fan and I'm from TEXAS!

I’ve been an EitS fan since buying the Friday Night Lights soundtrack the day after I saw the movie in a theater. This is their first album in five years, not including a few movie soundtracks. I was cautious that it would be too much of a departure from their previous stylings after hearing the early release of Disintegration Anxiety. Even on the first listen, it hooked me and it hooked me good. More ambient than their previous work, but still a lot of hopeful melodies working up and down and carrying each song along.