Explosions in the Sky
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Mon 7 Apr 2025 - 20:00 EST
Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH
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Mon 24 Mar 2025 - 20:00 EST
Charleston Music Hall, Charleston, SC
Wed 26 Mar 2025 - 20:00 EST
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Fri 4 Apr 2025 - 20:00 CST
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Explosions in the Sky Biography

The Wilderness is Explosions In The Sky's sixth album, and first nonsoundtrack release since 2011’s Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. True to its title, The Wilderness explores the infinite unknown, utilizing several of the band’s own definitions of “space" (outer space, mental space, physical geography of space) as compositional tools. The band uses their gift for dynamics and texture in new and unique ways—rather than intuitively fill those empty spaces, they shine a light into them to illuminate all the colors of the dark. From the electronic textures of the opening track to the ambient dissolve of closer “Landing Cliffs,” The Wilderness is an aggressively modern and forward-thinking work—one that wouldn’t seem the slightest bit out of place on a shelf between original pressings of Meddle and Obscured By Clouds.

The first EITS album not produced entirely by the band, The Wilderness finds them working with long time collaborator (and Grammy-winning producer) John Congleton in a co-pro...

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