| Artist |
Explosions In The Sky |
| Album Title: |
The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Rock: Post Rock |
| Format |
Vinyl (2) |
| Released |
11/04/2003 |
| Reissue Date |
00/00/2016 |
| Label |
Temporary Residence Limited |
| Catalog No |
TRR 61 |
| Bar Code No |
656605306117 |
| Reissue |
Yes |
| Packaging |
LP Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place (Disc 1) |
| A1.
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First Breath After Coma (9:33)
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| A2.
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The Only Moment We Were Alone (10:14)
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| B1.
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Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean (8:43)
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| B2.
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Memorial (8:50)
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| The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place (Disc 2) |
| A1.
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Your Hand in Mine (8:17)
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| Date Acquired |
03/05/2021 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Temporary Residence Limited Website |
| Purchase Price |
22.00 |
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Notes |
Notes:
Comes in a standard single sleeve with printed inner sleeves and MP3 download.
Originally issued with Temporary Residence Ltd. 20th Anniversary sticker and a white hype sticker. Later issued with a red and white hype sticker.
Side D contains no music but has an etching depicting birds and the sentence: "The Earth is not a cold dead place because you are listening, because you are breathing."
Recorded June 2003 in Texas, USA.
Credits:
Artwork – Esteban Rey
Music By – Christopher Hrasky, Mark T Smith, Michael James, Munaf Rayani
Recorded By – John Congleton
Companies, etc.:
Lacquer Cut At – SAE Mastering
Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 25362
Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 26049
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode: 656605306117
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side A, etched, SAE MASTERING stamped): TRR-061-A SAE MASTERING 25362.1(3)...
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side B, etched, SAE MASTERING stamped): TRR-061-B RE-1 SAE MASTERING 26049.2(2)...
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side C, etched, SAE MASTERING stamped): TRR-061-C SAE MASTERING 25362.3(3)...
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review by Johnny Loftus:
Explosions in the Sky's second effort takes a more studied, even lush approach to the literate chaos of their 2001 debut. But put on your sad sack thinking cap now, because Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place is a contemplative and heady rush of masterful melancholia. Its six songs are multi-minute, slow motion workouts of gentle electric guitar plucks and subtle/sudden washes of percussion -- they're still instrumental, but as lyrical as anything in the indie rock universe. "Only Moment We Were Alone" turns on a simple, melancholy guitar figure, the drums shifting from insistent catch-up mode to a studied march built to introduce the next layered crescendo. Explosions in the Sky doesn't shift as suddenly or jarringly on Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place; the quartet has applied more structural predictability this time out, but is still quick about setting the sad butterflies in your stomach to fluttering. "Memorial" is the album's meditative heart. It begins so quietly, reduced to brittle landscapes of tone. Lightly chiming guitars drift in, like the echoes of church bells off in narrow city streets. Then, like each of the album's movements, it surges forward in a rush, like the overtures of Sonic Youth separated, dried, and ultimately lengthened in the blistering Texas sun. The final blast of distortion and staccato drumming is Earth at full bittersweet bluster. "Your Hand in Mine" ends things as they began, with a pair of determined guitars picking out a melody that's both pretty and pretty damn heartbreaking.
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