Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2953 in Music
• Released on: 2008-01-28
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Compare ti Sigur Ros & Explosions in the sky
Having listened to Sigur Ros and Explosions for years this is immense. If this is their first effort then I have to say 'well done'.
Actually I have to say 'amazing, brilliant, awe inspiring, the best album since 'Sigur Ros's' best offering Takk. If you like the aforementioned bands and GSYBE and MOGWAI then you will love this.

Explodes
So you come from Texas, and you make postrock. You're going to be compared with Explosions in the Sky. The question then is, how well do you compare?

On their first effort, Young Mountain, TWDY didn't compare all that well. For all the praise that minialbum received, it was fairly workaday postrock. It didn't have that whoah there go the hairs on my neck thing going on.

This does.

TWDY do not simply plough the quiet-loud furrow. Several of the songs here are meditative, tranquil and deep. Rather than always aim at the soaring crescendos beloved of postrockers, they build moods. And where on Young Mountain, they sometimes missed, and ended up in a mire of postrock cliche, here they hit the heights. They've been compared with Sigur Ros and I think moodwise, they're getting close. Nothing here has quite the impact of Von from Heim, but there's some deeply moving stuff on here. If you love Mono, EITS, the more ambient Mogwai, this is your new favourite record.