Explosions In The Sky – The Rescue (Travels In Constants Volume Twenty-One) (2005)
Artist: Explosions In The Sky
Title: The Rescue (Travels In Constants Volume Twenty-One)
Format: CD
Cat: TIC21
Year of Release: 2005
Country and Year of Edition: US 2005 slipcase
Sell Price: $20.58 11/22/23
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 10/2/23 M/M $38.46
Low: $10.99
Median: $23.99
Average: $25.93
High: $48.10
Current low price: $12.00 NM/VG
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5
Have/Want: 442/270
Where Sold: London, UK
Time It Took To Sell: 2 years
Where and When Bought: The Fountain Collection
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B
Sad To See It Go: No
Austin post-rock stalwarts since 1999 had 3 albums under their belt when they issued this 8 track conceptual EP. The concept according to the insert was to record a song a day for two weeks. They stopped at 8 days to do mixes for the rest of the week. This has since been reissued and supposedly remastered in 2019, but since I didn't know this immaculate slipcase edition Fountain's purge gave me, I went into this knowing very little about Explosions In The Sky. My ability to approximate in my head what they sounded like before actually hearing the band was pretty spot on. That they are big enough now to still perform at the 3,000 capacity Kings Theatre in Brooklyn was surprising to me and it seems like they did it in 2016 and last month. Surprise, surprise, they just played London earlier this month, a similar size venue. Death and tours have a tendency to push titles out of my recently slow selling collection.
The Travels in Constants series was a Temporary Residence Ltd CD series that ran from 1999 to 2007. It featured many of the post-rock icons you were probably expect whether Mogwai, Papa M, Mono, you get the picture. All that is missing is the Albini production in Chicago. This was a self recorded project, remember?
I wanted to give it a few more chinks in it's armor, but ultimately felt this was reasonable ambient stuff born of radical pretention: a recording concept that ultimately cannot be deciphered with the actual music. I would never have known but something told me to read the slip of paper to see if there was anything in the rambling screed in a bottle sort of message that would shed any insight for this release among the myriad of accessible post-rock releases.
Pianos plunk and dry drums snap. Grown men aaaah melodically and bells ring among spartan high end guitar notes. Some Londoner threw down nearly 40 pounds including shipping for this concoction. Was the remaster that different?
Can anyone tell the difference?
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